Weld bandwagon just keeps rolling

DERMOT WELD wasted no time smashing the record for the number of winners trained at the Galway festival when Rainforest Magic took his score for the week to twelve in the opening Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Ballybrit last night.

Weld set the original record of eleven a year ago. His horses are in outstanding form right now - he later added Address Unknown to the total in the concluding Guinness Race - and, with two days to go, one can only guess as to what the final score may be.

Robbie McNamara, enjoying his third winner of the week, had an armchair ride on Rainforest Magic, easing the Montjeu gelding to the front two out to beat Clonsilla Fath with plenty in hand.