THE top races at the recent Galway Festival were under National Hunt rules, although its flat contests included the Listed Arthur Guinness European Breeders Fund Corrib Fillies Stakes over seven furlongs, which Laviniad won in a three-way photo-finish.

The Willie Mullins-trained five-year-old is yet another blacktype scorer to carry the famous Ballylinch Stud colours, she is homebred, and also a daughter of the team’s classic-winning stallion Lawman (by Invincible Spirit), sire of the Group 1 stars Just The Judge, Law Enforcement, and Much Improved.