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Published at Jul 31, 2015, 21:39

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The crowd at Ballybrit this evening at the fifth stage of the Galway Festival was 21,532, up 369 on last year's 21,163.

€1,221,017 was handled by the bookmakers, up €186,368 on 2014's €1,034,649.

Meanwhile the Tote aggregate was back from €711,550 twelve months ago to €668,254, a drop of €43,296.

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