Five highlights to look forward to at the Galway Festival

It’s one of biggest racing weeks of the year in the racing world with terrific domestic action at Galway as well as a stellar meeting at Goodwood. Here’s five things to keep in mind over the next six days.

THE WELD FACTOR

To say Dermot Weld is a Galway Festival specialist is a bit like suggesting James Bond does okay with the ladies. It is, in other words, an understatement of epic proportions. Should Weld reign supreme again this week it’ll be the 30th year in succession that the Rosewell House handler will have claimed the leading trainer award. More than any other, that statistic shows just how relentless a force Weld is during the biggest racing week of the Irish summer.