TIMES were quite a bit slower on the flat on day two than day one at Galway. Uradel’s was the best winning time performance (98) on the Monday at Ballybrit, but runner-up Limini gave him weight and comes out at 104.

Even better was to come from another Rich Ricci horse the following day, when Riven Light defied a welter burden in the Colm Quinn BMW Handicap, registering a 111 timefigure which suggests he has a future in listed races and possibly even better than that. There will be few, if any, better efforts in a handicap this Irish flat season.