Mission impossible for punters at Galway

This week confirmed something that has been nagging one for a while — it is actually easier to show a profit at Cheltenham than Galway.

No wonder bookmakers turn up in droves for the seven-day spectacular. They know they are involved in a profession that is dying a slow death and this meeting represents a real chance of getting some serious, and possibly badly needed, dosh in the coffers.

For punters this really was an impossible Galway, with very difficult to solve racing in the first place made even more complicated by unseasonal ground.