HISTORY repeated itself in the opening race of the 2025 Galway Festival as Davy Crockett - son of decorated debut Ballybrit bumper winner Annie Power - took out the Galway Bay Hotel & The Galmont Hotel Novice Hurdle, just as his Grade 1-winning half-brother Mystical Power had done for the same connections two years earlier.

This didn’t look the deepest contest on paper beforehand, as the winner’s SP of 1/2 suggested, and he overcame an untimely error at the second last under Mark Walsh to finish two and a half lengths clear of a game Mick Collins.