BALLYBRIT is synonymous with big crowds and atmosphere, but the last two Galway Summer Racing Festivals – like sporting events all over the globe – were...
HE may be disposed as the ‘King of Ballybrit’, but Dermot Weld hasn’t lost his touch for training big-race winners at the Galway Summer Festival. Monday’s...
THE only locally trained winner at the 2016 Galway Summer Festival – 50/1 rank outsider Poormans Hill – brought only minimal relief to the bookmakers who...
THE Co Tipperary yard of Joe Murphy plundered the big race on the opening evening of the Galway Summer Festival when 16/1 chance Swamp Fox emerged...
This year’s Galway summer racing festival was launched this week, with more than 150,000 racing fans expected to head to Ballybrit for the seven-day event, which...
RECORD prizemoney will be up for grabs at the upcoming Galway Summer Festival as the country’s most popular race meeting at Ballybrit is closing in on...
IT was arguably the training achievement of the Galway summer festival, but local handler Steve Mahon had agonised over whether or not to give Aranhill Chief...