TRALEE, whose future is very much in doubt anyway, didn’t have the best of starts to its five-day Festival yesterday, when the meeting was the subject of a bomb scare.

With testing ground and a bomb scare, day one of the Tralee Festival got off to a lively start and it was Forthright who claimed the feature Brandon Hotel Handicap Hurdle.

Tralee’s five-day festival got off to a belated start after a bomb scare caused the first race to be delayed by almost 45 minutes.