NOW that the dust has settled on another edition of the Galway Races, there is time to take stock.

Willie Mullins dominated the week, not just the first four days. Twelve winners from 59 runners, including five of the seven feature races, a strike rate of over 20% and a level stakes profit of €27.19. They are serious figures for Galway week.

The 12 winners were ridden by nine different riders. Patrick Mullins rode three of them and Ruby Walsh rode two of them, and every other Mullins winning rider rode one each: Aubrey McMahon, Paul Townend, Danny Mullins, David Mullins, Billy Lee, Colin Keane and Katie O’Farrell.

Six of the 12 winners were over jumps, five were on the flat, two in qualified riders’ races, and just one was in a bumper. The last bumper. Dorrells Pierji in the last race on the last day.

It was some week for Mark Enright, who wasn’t finished for the week by the time we went to press last Friday week. After his magical Wednesday, when he won the Plate on 33/1 shot Clarcam and won the mares’ handicap hurdle on his only other ride on the day, another 33/1 shot in Rovetta – Jessica Harrington’s filly won again on Sunday – the Limerick man went back on Sunday and won the handicap chase on Show And Go, the least well-fancied of Henry de Bromhead’s three in the race.

THREE WINNERS

That was three winners for Enright for the week and it was enough to see him crowned leading National Hunt rider at Galway 2018.

LIMERICK MEN

And it was another Limerick man, Billy Lee, who was crowned leading flat rider for the week. Lee rode a double on Thursday, Honor Oak for Tom Hogan and Camlann for Shark Hanlon, and he landed the Guinness Handicap on Friday on Nessun Dorma for Willie Mullins. He stacked them up a little on the run down the hill and he kicked off the home turn, with enough in hand to get home by a neck.

Like Enright, Lee also had three winners for the week. Things coming to Limerick men in threes. That’s two titles in the bag and you just never know from where a third title could be coming to a Limerick man this month. Or a whole bunch of Limerick men.