GALWAY FESTIVAL: SHAMROCK looks ahead to the start of the Galway Festival on Monday and wonders how brave the layers will get with the Dermot Weld trained runners?
Was last year just a blip at Galway? The unthinkable happened and Dermot Weld wasn’t champion trainer of the week – for the first time since 1998 with Willie Mullins the new kid on the Ballybrit block.
The smart money is on Willie Mullins again, but the smarter money might well be on Joseph O’Brien who is in terrific form leading up to Galway and has a penalty kick in the opener.
The same can’t be said for Dermot Weld who is without a winner in the last two weeks and the layers are sure to take a very binary view and keep pushing them out.
If you do find a Dermot Weld winner this week you are likely to be well rewarded, which certainly isn’t usually the case here.
Joseph O’Brien looks to have the answer to the opener at 5.20pm with hat-trick seeking Le Richebourg who has impressed in two Killarney wins and looks well up to taking this bigger race.
Twobeelucky was a maiden on the flat when trained by Mark Johnston but looks another horse over jumps. Now with Henry de Bromhead, he has impressed in two wins from two and looks set to give the favourite a battle. No bet for me here.
I’m saving the Euros for the first flat race of the week – a maiden over seven furlongs at 6.25pm with incredibly no Dermot Werld representative.
Joseph O’Brien’s Medal Of Honour has some excellent placed form and although brushed aside by his father’s The Pentagon last time at the Curragh that one might well be out of the very top drawer.
SHAMROCK’S BETS:
NAP: Medal Of Honour (6.25 Galway)
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