Today's Tips: Stone Blues should have rivals under his Thumb at Galway

Galway hosts the last day of its three-day September meeting, and the Shay Barry-trained Thumb Stone Blues gets the nap to help punters end the festival on a flyer.

The five-year-old ran out a comfortable winner on debut, when accounting for the promising Loughmore Queen and Coffee Cantata, with one of today’s rivals, Pearl Diamond, well behind.

That was back in May, and he returned after an absence to contest a very hot bumper at the summer festival here. On soft ground, he travelled very well until coming off the bridle turning for home.