Ruby Walsh: Unexposed Royal Rendezvous the one to beat in Galway Plate

You don’t need a crowd or an atmosphere to make a Galway Plate exciting for a jockey

Royal Rendezvous (nearest) looks the best option in a typically tricky Galway Plate at Ballybrit this afternoon. Picture: Healy Racing 

This year’s Galway Plate won’t be any different for a jockey than any other Galway Plate. 

You’ll still be down at the start with 21 rivals behind you, around you and beside you at the bottom of the straight making your way in an orderly manner of organised chaos to the start from where you’ll set off at a hundred miles an hour.