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Local jockey lands the Galway Plate for second time in three years at summer festival

IT’S four days on since his second Tote sponsored Galway Plate triumph in three years and Danny Gilligan is still a l...

12/1 chance Dunum does it again at favourite racetrack

THE horses for courses theory was underlined at Ballybrit on Tuesday evening when track specialist Dunum sprang back ...

€13,000 up for grabs for Best Dressed awards on Guinness Hurdle day

IT may have been taken over by teenagers, but Ladies Day at the Galway Races is still one of the most salubrious occa...

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Festival’s features can fall to Down Memory Lane and Mullins’ Batman Girac

By George McDonagh FOR those of us who are regular racegoers, there are two questions that we love to hear at this time of year: what will win “...

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Galway jockey Leigh Roche hankers after Group One success

THE lowest moment of Leigh Roche’s career in the saddle came in the spring of 2018 not long after Ireland’s champion flat jockey had taken seriousl...

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O’Flaherty is eager to maintain festival’s popularity

THERE’s a new sheriff in town; a new man at the helm of the Galway Race Committee. And Dr Colm O’Flaherty will be striving to build on the succe...

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Gilligans on target with Sequestered

A tilt at the Irish Grand National on Easter Monday could be on the cards for the Galway owned and trained Sequestered. A runaway winner of the ...

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High-flying Galway jockey wins on his only ride at famed Breeders’ Cup meeting

IT’S getting a little ridiculous now – but in a good way! Rossa Ryan is only 24 and he has already claimed two of the biggest prizes in flat rac...

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Galway jockey lands Europe’s top flat race on Bluestocking

IN the history of outstanding individual feats by a Galway sportsperson, what Rossa Ryan achieved in Longchamp on Sunday ranks up there with the be...


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Local jockey lands the Galway Plate for second time in three years at summer festival
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