IT WAS a week that summed up the lion-taming properties of racing, and the bloodstock industry in general.

Galway has been good to Sheila Lavery and, after a quiet first half of the year, it delivered again last week. She finished with three winners, including a double on the Tuesday, to place third in the trainers’ list, a long way behind Willie Mullins but sitting proudly alongside Aidan O’Brien and Dermot Weld.