Point-To-Point: "Once a good horse, always a good horse".

Noel Meade, a trainer with a long history at Galway, saddled his first winner of the Plate when Road To Riches ran his rivals ragged at Ballybrit yesterday.

Champion-jockey Davy Russell completed a treble for Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud on Very Wood, Band Of Blood and Shrapnel in Galway yesterday.

On a day when the Willie Mullins-trained Twinlight proved best in the featured, Grade 3 Faber Audiovisuals Novice Chase, Davy Russell deservedly earned the plaudits in Galway yesterday thanks to a spectacular treble on Rogue Angel, Shrapnel and Lastoftheleaders in the first three races.

Noel Meade and Davy Condon (deputising for the injured Paul Carberry) struck on the double with Top Man Michael and Johannisberger in the early action in Roscommon last night.

Veteran course specialist Fit The Cove proved the toast of punters on the final day of the 2012 Galway Festival as Harry Rogers’ charge landed the Galway Shopping Centre Handicap in courageous style, providing jockey Chris Hayes with the first leg of a double and proving the only successful favourite on Family Day at Ballybrit.

Graham Watters appears to be the only jockey to have suffered an injury from a pile-up at Roscommon on Tuesday night.

Graham Watters appears to be the only jockey to have suffered an injury from a pile-up at Roscommon on Tuesday night.

ROYAL DEVOTION, trained by Michael Halford for Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud, sprang the biggest shock on a day of surprises at Galway yesterday when landing the listed Ardilaun House Hotel Oyster Stakes.

VICTORY in yesterday’s Munster Motor Cycle and Car Club Loose Surface Autocross in Brinny, the penultimate round of the Maxsport Munster Autocross Championship, has virtually assured Gerard Lucey his second title in succession.