Galway Day 4 preview: Jockey Wesley Joyce teams up again with Red Heel two years after near disastrous spill in the Corrib Stakes
Day 4 preview: Jockey Wesley Joyce teams up again with Red Heel two years after near disastrous spill in the Corrib StakesRachael Blackmore: her services have been snapped up by Willie Mullins for the mare Williamstowndancer in the lucrative Galway Hurdle. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inphois multi-handed in Thursday’s Guinness Galway Hurdle as he tries to extend his dominance of Ireland’s richest handicap over flights.
He has had five wins in the last eight years but only twice with the apparent stable number one. So, with Mullins saddling eight of the 20 runners it’s a mini puzzle in itself to try to figure out the stable’s pecking order.Pinkerton rolls back the years with exciting Galway Plate success for Noel MeadeGalway race winner puts the ‘Brit’ in Ballybrit as flip-flops are tipped for the fashion stakes
Topweight Winter Fog faces a major but not insurmountable task considering how Saldier and Aramon successfully defied their heady ratings, while Risk Belle is another Mullins hope sure to enter calculations. She is one of half-a-dozen mares in the race trying to emulate Missunited, who was the last of her sex to win in 2013.
Henry de Bromhead will try to win the Hurdle for a first time with Gorgeous Tom, although his jockey Rachael Blackmore has been snapped up by Mullins for another of the mares, Williamstowndancer. However, the most evocative moment on Thursday will be Wesley Joyce’s appearance on board Red Heel in the Listed Corrib Stakes on the flat.
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