Glad rags brighten up buzzing Ballybrit

ON Galway Plate Day, the bookies got hosed and not just by the rain, which finally made its obligatory appearance in Ballybrit.

Glad rags brighten up buzzing Ballybrit

It just wouldn’t be the Galway Races without the rain. Every year, a deluge descends and although racegoers were spared a downpour of biblical proportions yesterday, it was still a pretty wet and dreary day to go racing.

However, that didn’t mean there was a dreary atmosphere. Galway Plate Day comes about just once a year and nothing, not even God himself, was going to spoil the party.

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