It’s Galway alright, but not as we know it
MAIN EVENT: Finian Maguire delivers Princess Zoe with a perfectly-timed challenge to win the Connacht Hotel (Q.R.) Handicap, the feature event on the opening day of the Galway Races. In the normal course of events, the festival could expect 146,000 through the turnstiles over the course of the week but these are not normal times.
They celebrated one and a half centuries of the Galway summer racing festival last year with the customary swash and buckle but it was a very different vista around Ballybrit last evening.
Racing professionals have become accustomed to behind-closed-doors action since its restoration on June 8, and are thankful for it, given how integral the dissemination of prizemoney is to the overall industry.
