GALWAY opened their festival with an all-flat card for the second successive year with Finny Maguire following the pattern when winning the evening’s feature race, the Connacht Hotel Handicap for amateur riders on Dermot Weld’s Coltor (83).

Litterale Ci (82) set out to make all in the hands of Aine O’Connor with both the second, Foveros (83) and the winner always in close attendance on a day when it paid to race close to the pace.