Results Galway Fri, 1st Aug, 2025

Danu produces Mighty finish to strike on debut

Intense Approach proves game under Harvey

That was great. He's a proper good horse and I think he was sick when he ran in the Albert Bartlett,. We went over with four or five to Cheltenham and most of them came home sick. We rushed him back to Perth and he probably wasn't right that day. I was happy enough that he was a lot better than that. This has been the target since then. He had a few issues with his jumping over hurdles but when we schooled him over fences we knew he was going to be better. It was a good performance, it's probably the best beginners chase I’ve seen in Galway in a long time. Fine, they all finished in a heap but he got the job done. His owner is here and I'm delighted. I'd say he could end up in Cheltenham in October, on nice ground. We'll give him a nice freshen up after this and decide. The fact that he handles two-miles-six around here you could be thinking about next year for the Plate, but that's a long way off. This was a plan that we had and it's come off so I’m delighted as they often don't.

Turnpike Trip rolls back the years in Galway Blazers

Nans View provides Fahey with welcome win in Galway feature

Third time lucky for Eternal Spirit

Mother Mara provides O'Leary & Burns with some compensation

Further Galway joy for Harrington as Taipan does it again

Steps In The Sand takes her chance & completes hat-trick

Murphy, who was registering his second winner of the week, commented. We were hoping we'd get in. There were a lot of boxes ticked for her today. She had a lovely draw, we had the man that had won twice on her before taking off 7lb, and the ground had tightened up nicely. It was drying all the time and that's what she needs. She's probably at her best on that sort of ground. We were really impressed with her the last day, she won over a mile-and-a-half which is probably as short as she'd want. We felt coming today that she was probably better than she was going to Ballinrobe, for whatever reason. We knew she'd handle the hill and everything. Being on the inside was looking a bit tricky at one point but Paddy was very cool on her, he's very good value for his 7lb. He's going places that young man and we're happy to have him. She's going to go up in grade again. We were going to go for a '60' in Sligo but the handicapper left us with no option but to come here as he gave us 61 after the last day. That worked out nicely. She's going to still be in the 70 bracket and she'll go for something like this again, maybe even over two miles. She still has the hurdles option as well. She'll be running away while the ground is decent, until the winter time.