“I’M a natural lightweight”, quipped Robbie McNamara, very much tongue-in-cheek, after the 19-year-old had powered Dermot Weld’s Majestic Concorde to victory in the GPT Handicap at the first stage of the Galway Festival last night.

ON Friday evening, June 27, the weekend of the Irish Derby, Dermot Weld’s Grey Swallow was due to make his debut in a lowly maiden at the Curragh over seven furlongs.

DERMOT WELD yesterday expressed surprise his Refuse To Bend figures so prominently in the market for the English 2,000 Guineas.