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Colgan Galvinises Lee's front-runner

El Galvino El Galvino
© Healy Racing Photos

Friendless in the market all day, El Galvino made all to run out a game winner of the Waterford Castle And Resort Style Evening August 15th Maiden at Tramore.

A 9/2 chance this morning, the Outstrip gelding was sent off 20/1 in the mile and a-half contest.

Placed twice at Dundalk last year, the 75-rated gelding responded well to Robbie Colgan's urgings to see off kimy by half-a-length with odds-on favourite Dream On Baby back in third.

Winning trainer Andrew Lee quipped "The owners ( (Back On Track Syndicate) are great and had a winner with me here when I last had a winner, which must have been forty years ago! They are local and there are two guys who are in England, so unfortunately they didn't get to see him.

"Things didn't go for him the last day in Dundalk when he pulled a muscle but prior to that he had been running very consistently. We got the measure of him afterwards and he is a horse who takes no fitness- work.

"I thought he'd run a big race and nothing took him on, so he got a freebie. They probably thought he'd crash, but this horse doesn't do that. Robbie gave him one of those old, canny rides.

"Now that he has won, we'll stay on the Flat but he has schooled over hurdles and was bought to do both jobs."

1st
20/1
Tote €25.60 €4.00
2nd
0.5L
6/1
€1.60
3rd
1.25L
8/11Fav
€1.02
4th
nk
22/1
About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.