Galway day three tips: Everything points to a big run from Fury Road in the Plate
LEADING PLAYER: Fury Road is a mercurial character but the best of his form more than stacks up to his Galway Plate rivals and this will be his easiest task for quite some time. Picture: Healy Racing
The first of the week’s twin features, the Tote Galway Plate, is the centrepiece on Wednesday’s card in Ballybrit and Gordon Elliott sends a strong team in search of a fourth win in the race. He will saddle six runners in the €270,000 race and there is a case to be made for all of them, the most compelling, though, for Fury Road.
The Gigginstown House Stud gelding is a mercurial character but the best of his form more than stacks up to these rivals and this will be his easiest task for quite some time. Winner of a Grade One novice chase in late 2021, he has been highly tried ever since and in amongst those races are some fine efforts, not least when third to Conflated in the Savills Chase at the last Leopardstown Christmas meeting, and when filling the same spot behind Galopin Des Champs in the Irish Gold Cup on his next outing.
