Western Fold gives Elliott a fifth Galway Plate success 

WINNING COMBINATION: Jockey Danny Gilligan with Western Fold and trainer Gordon Elliott after winning the Tote Galway Plate at Ballybrit. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA 

Gordon Elliott enhanced a fantastic record in the Tote Galway Plate when Western Fold became his fifth win in the last 10 renewals of the race and, for local rider Danny Gilligan, it was a second win in the race, two years on from Ash Tree Meadow's success.

It was an eventful race, with a couple of horses all but left at the start, a few fallers and unseats, and some indifferent rounds of jumping but, for the winner, it was plain sailing.