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Road To Riches to be trained for Galway

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Road To Riches will soon be schooling for the first time since his crunching fall at the Punchestown Festival.

Noel Meade's top-class chaser has not been seen since he took a horrible-looking tumble when still in front at the second-last of the Punchestown Gold Cup.

He is being prepared for a second assault on the Galway Plate, a race he won in 2014 and launched him into the top tier of chasing.

"Michael (O'Leary) has been thinking about it (Galway Plate) for a while and said after Punchestown if he was OK to train him again for the Plate," Meade said.

"Despite the fall he seems to have come out of it OK. We haven't schooled him yet but he's ready to school.

"We'll give him a pop next week to see if it's had any effect on him but he's in very good form.

"With so many highly-rated horses in training at this time of the year there'll be a full field but I'd still expect him to have top weight."