JULY 27TH

A MONTH since returning home from many years spent involved with Hong Kong racing, I pitch up at Ballymany for my first day with Irish Thoroughbred Marketing (ITM). It is a good week to join with the focus firmly on the Galway Races and Goodwood. Keeping tabs on and writing about the constant flurry of Irish-bred and trained success - not just on both sides of the Irish Sea, but worldwide - begins. This becomes a regular theme: Irish horses win a lot of big races in a lot of places.