Patrick Mullins is eagerly-anticipating a couple of choice mounts on day one at Galway on Monday.
The seven-day festival in Ballybrit kicks off with a mixed seven-race card, featuring the €110,000 Connacht Hotel Handicap for qualified riders, in which leading amateur Mullins rides Tounsivator for his father, Willie, and conditions are expected to suit the seven-year-old.
Mullins said: “It’s the most valuable amateur race probably in England, Ireland or France – it’s a huge pot and I’m very luck to get a ride in it but 20 runners around Galway on good ground, it’s a rollercoaster of a race and you need a lot of luck in running.
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