Galway Plate aftermath was a couple of minutes of TV gold

It was, at least from a racing point of view, a magnificent couple of minutes of television. It happened on RTÉ on Wednesday, in the aftermath of Jonathan Burke guiding Shanahan’s Turn to a memorable success in the Galway Plate.

Burke was with Brian Gleeson, Ted Walsh and Bryan Cooper in RTÉ’s little area just outside the pressroom and they were subsequently joined by Davy Russell.

Out on the track 19-year-old Burke stole the show with a magical piece of riding aboard Shanahan’s Turn, but it was Russell who emerged as an unassuming hero in a riveting discussion, driven quite beautifully by Gleeson and aided by Walsh.