Galway Tips: Royal Canford can make amends

The Mpex Kid is also poised to follow up on an impressive win

The Galway Festival, albeit not as we know it, gets underway today and Royal Canford, who was a shade unlucky here last year, can make amends in the first division of the Galmont.com & Galwaybayhotel.com Handicap.

Willie McCreery’s filly has her quirks, but she showed what she is capable of when winning a Curragh Maiden in September. It was not the strongest of races, but she deserved that breakthrough success and the way she coped with cut in the ground bodes well for today’s softening conditions.