Out Now gets the nod to land a typically wide-open www.thetote.com Galway Plate at Ballybrit today.

“Mr Weld’s horses are flying, he’d win with a donkey this week,” joked Jane Mangan, after she had guided Rosewell House’s Midnight Music to victory in the Carlton Hotel Handicap at Galway last night.

Dermot Weld wasted no time in opening his account at this year's Galway Festival by taking the first race of the meeting, the Radissonhotelgalway.com & Galwaybayhotel.com Novice Hurdle, with Train Of Thought.

A good start is half the battle and, hopefully, Maxim Gorky can give us just that in the HotelMeyrick.ie and theghotel.ie Handicap Hurdle at the opening stage of the Galway Festival this evening.

THE classy Thomas Edison should prove hard to beat in the Dawn Omega Milk Novice Hurdle at Killarney this afternoon.

Zuzka should open her account over hurdles in the Irish Stallion Farms Mares Maiden Hurdle in Sligo tomorrow.

The most interesting horse on show in Ireland this weekend has to be the Tony Martin-trained Thomas Edison in the Buck Mooneys’ Maiden Hurdle at Bellewstown tonight.

Beware of hype, especially when it’s coming from those whose only desire is the selling of newspapers.

Champion jockey Davy Russell dominated proceedings at Gowran Park yesterday with a double initiated by Discoteca, who had to work hard to win the opening two mile conditions hurdle.

Former champion Ruby Walsh kept punters happy at a sunny Cork last night when doubling-up on well-backed Roman Flight and odds-on favourite Simenon in the opening two races.

THE Irish look dominant in the first at Cheltenham today.

THE Oliver McKiernan-trained Follow The Plan was a shock 25-1 winner of the Grade 2 Matty Ryan Memorial Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles yesterday.