Racing world stands in silence to remember Colm

The boisterous Galway racing crowd stood for a minute’s silence in tribute to legendary racing broadcaster Colm Murray.

Thousands of punters stood with jockeys and trainers in silence as a picture of the broadcaster was put on the racecourse’s big screen. He had been fighting motor neurone disease.

Galway racecourse manager John Maloney said the racing world had lost not only a great reporter but a “dear friend”.