Galway Races Day 4: Our Lucky 15 Selections and Insights

14:10 — Gale Mahler

Course form at Ballybrit counts for plenty and Adrian Keatley's mare GALE MAHLER was an impressive scorer over hurdles here last summer in Listed company.

She was on quite the sequence by then, winning her sixth race on the trot, and she remained consistent over the winter without adding to her tally.

She opened her account over fences at the second time of asking at Uttoxeter (2m, good) in June and ran well since at the Midlands circuit over 2m4f when conceding plenty of weight to the winner as she finished second.

She takes on classy types like Pied Piper and Westport Cove from top Irish yards now, but she carries just 10st 8lb and should run a big race under former British champion jockey Brian Hughes, a welcome visitor to the Galway Races.

15:20 Galway — Fingerpaint

Dermot Weld opts for a swift rise in class with his Kingman filly FINGERPAINT in the Juddmonte silks as she tackles the Arthur Guinness Irish EBF Corrib Fillies Stakes, a Listed race over 7f.

She debuted at the Curragh in May and stayed on strongly over this 7f for Chris Hayes to master Collecting Coin by a neck.

The Jessica Harrington-trained runner-up gave that form a timely boost on Tuesday when living up to his name by landing a course and distance maiden in decisive fashion after being well backed into 6/5 favouritism.

That suggests the debut showing from Fingerpaint was above average and she merits this class-rise for the one-time King of Ballybrit.

16:30 — Dysart Enos

Popular Gloucestershire-based Irishman Fergal O'Brien would dearly love to land a Galway Hurdle win and has suggested that DYSART ENOS is 'the right mare to go over with' as he contemplates his first raid on the Ballybrit venue.

Last season started with a promising third in the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham off a mark of 131 but it tapered off thereafter, albeit she ran in some hot company including the Grade 1 Mares' Hurdle in the Cotswolds in March.

She finished with a good run in the Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr in April after which this target was identified. A spin on the Flat at Kempton this month should leave her fully fit and this six-year-old is capable of a challenge at a solid each-way price.

17:05 - Cameletta Vega

Willie Mullins and Paul Townend should get in on the act here with CAMELETTA VEGA, a daughter of Camelot out of mighty hurdler Quevega, running in the familiar silks of her mother for the Hammer & Trowel Syndicate.

There have been some false dawns for the owners but this mare won a bumper here last summer and made a sparkling hurdles bow at Cork (2m3f, good) in May.

She readily accounted for the Gordon Elliott-trained Emily Love that day, with the runner-up winning her next four before a noble third in a Listed novice contest over shorter here earlier in the week.

Cameletta Vega should be well suited upped slightly in trip and looks the one to beat for the Closutton team.