Galway’s seven-day festival gets underway with a very competitive evening meeting, and True Solitaire earns the nap to take the Claregalwayhotel.ie EBF Maiden for Dermot Weld.

Versatile veteran Fosters Cross proved, again, that he retains plenty of his ability when landing the featured Donal Downes Water Towers Chase in Ballinrobe last night.

A year ago Tony Martin and Stephen Clements combined to land the Connacht Hotel Handicap with Edeymi and they repeated the feat last night when Quick Jack stormed away with the first feature of the week at the Galway festival.