On a Plate for Oslot as Weld notches 200th winner

VERY few horses come to the Galway Festival as hotly fancied as Oslot was for yesterday’s Plate and then deliver in the manner Paul Nicholls’ charge did.

Equally, there are few trainers who have mastered Galway like Dermot Weld and when Lady Alicia scored his 200th Festival success in the sixth race, he laid down a marker few will ever equal.

Nicholls’ ability to pick off jump racing’s biggest prizes was underlined once more as Ruby Walsh steered Oslot to an untroubled four length win over Charlie Swan’s Oodachee in second and Weld’s two-time winner Ansar in third, but it was Weld ultimately who was the hero of the hour.