From hats ’n’ high heels to children high on cola

AFTER a long week of winners and losers and Ladies madness, it was a far quieter affair at Ballybrit yesterday.

Friday always tends to be a more relaxed affair at the Galway Races, a day when families and locals come out to have a flutter in a more relaxed atmosphere. Instead of hats and high heels, it was buggies and children high on countless bottles of cola.

Galway’s hardworking folk also like to take a sneaky half-day on Friday and turn up for a punt. However not as many turned up this year, as the attendance was 18,258, down more than 10,000 on last year.