Galway Plate day is always a special occasion, and I’ve been fortunate enough to win the race on a couple of occasions.

Successful over a shorter trip at the May meeting, Le Vagabond returned to Killarney to land the featured, €50,000 At The Races Kingdom Gold Cup on the second day of the August Festival last night.

Henry de Bromhead’s horses always seem to appreciate nice ground and the County Waterford handler saddled a double at Limerick.

The Liam Burke-trained newcomer Nambour lit up yesterday’s well attended but bitterly cold Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point meeting at Dromahane by destroying the opposition in the second division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.