Galway Races: Coltor swoops to conquer again for Dermot Weld

Coltor's victory was Weld's eighth as a trainer in the race

Finny Maguire on Coltor (right) comes home best to win the Connacht Hotel (Q.R.) Handicap at Galway. Picture: Lorraine O’Sullivan/Inpho

Coltor, ridden by last year’s big-race hero Finny Maguire, bagged another Connacht Hotel Amateur Handicap for Dermot Weld on the opening day of Galway 2021.

Last year, Maguire struck on subsequent Group 1 winner Princess Zoe and, 12 months on, he galvanised Coltor, in the colours of Mischa Bucher, to wear down the Willie Mullins-trained Foveros, bidding to give rider Aubrey McMahon a third win in the race, inside the final furlong.