CROWDS DOWN AT FIRST DAY OF GALWAY RACES

Date Published: 29-Jul-2008

Betting and attendance for the first day of the Galway Races were down slightly on last year.The 7 day festival kicked off at Ballybrit last evening as trainer Dermot Weld shone again.20 thousand 500 people attended the first day of the Galway Races yesterday, slightly down on last year's figure.The TOTE aggregate for the day was just over 945 thousand euro compared to 1 point 1 million euro for the same day last year.Dermot Weld's, Majestic Concorde landed the feature race of the day, the GPT Galway Handicap with a prize fund of a hundred thousand euro.