Key Galway Races Insights: Add These Horses To Your Tracker The Galway Races are in the books for another year following seven days of intense action from Ballybrit. There were some stellar performances, some hard luck stories and lots of promising efforts. We've picked out some Galway performers from the past week that are worth putting in the tracker for future reference. Eternal Spirit Aidan O'Brien had a couple of Galway winners over the weekend and his filly Eternal Spirit could be one to have in the notebook. The daughter of Galileo started only twice last year and was beaten around four lengths when behind stablemate Minnie Hauk in a Leopardstown maiden over a mile in October. That Ballydoyle inmate has gone forward since and is now a dual Oaks winner following her successes at Epsom and the Curragh. Eternal Spirit was quiet in the market for her seasonal return in a 1m4f Galway maiden but Wayne Lordan's partner had her say in the race, coming with a strong challenge on the climb to the winning post and scoring in decisive fashion. The first-time blinkers and step up in trip appeared to work the oracle for the Galileo filly and she could be progressive in the coming months with very few miles on the clock and plenty of scope for better when possibly tackling something at Listed/Group 3 level. Invincible Will Gavin Cromwell will have taken plenty of encouragement despite Invincible Will only bagging a silver medal in the Guinness Irish EBF Nursery Handicap over seven furlongs behind Which Wolf Wins. The Joseph O'Brien-trained favourite was close to the pace throughout and took it up a furlong out, while Robert Whearty and Invincible Will were coming from much further back to present their challenge. They pulled clear of the rest and the gap to the winner was decreasing all the way to the line, but it remained at half a length flashing past the post. Invincible Will showed up well, his best effort on his fourth start as he started life in handicaps off a mark of 73. He had previously been too keen when he tried a mile in maiden company but he settled better this time and finished his race off really strongly. It won't be a shock if he is back racing over a mile next time and he looks to be on a nice mark. Light Up The Dark Winner of a 1m5f maiden at Down Royal in June for Joseph O'Brien and JP McManus, Light Up The Dark made her handicap debut in the Tote, Never Beaten By SP Handicap over an extended two miles and was the second string for O'Brien as Shoda started favourite. She looked poised to get the better of her stablemate only to fall short late on and in the end both were trumped by Ballybrit specialist Teed Up as he took advantage of a much-reduced mark to gain his sixth win at the western venue. Light Up The Dark is a Camelot filly and she won both her bumpers last winter on soft/heavy going. This was her first time in a handicap and a mark of 78 looks like one that can be exploited sooner rather than later with some give underfoot. This was a fine run on her handicap debut against some much more experienced rivals and she can almost certainly be expected to progress from it. She could even tackle hurdles this winter.
