The third day of the Galway Festival features the hugely valuable thetote.com Galway Plate Handicap Chase on another fiercely competitive card.
Follow The Plan is the class act on show having last been seen finishing a fine second in the Punchestown Gold Cup at the end of April, but he has to concede lumps of weights all round and the likes of Blackstairmountain and Whodoyouthink look sure to provide stiff opposition.
Racing begins an hour earlier than on the first two days, with the Tote Pick Six Maiden Hurdle due off at 3pm.
Moiqen should prove a tough nut to crack following a couple of near misses, although Too Scoops made a promising start to his hurdling career at Gowran and ought to improve for that first spin over timber.
The New Website 'Thetote.com' Handicap Hurdle looks an awfully tricky puzzle for punters to solve, but the Tote Jackpot Races 3 to 6 Handicap Hurdle might prove a shade easier to fathom, with Baresi a horse to keep on the right side of following two victories when last seen back in May.
Circle and Fatcatinthehat both seem sure to prove popular in the Bet 10euros, Get 10euros At The Tote Marquee Maiden, but Three Kingdoms shaped with plenty of encouragement on his Curragh debut, running on for fourth, and Dermot Weld's horses are always to be respected at this meeting.
Weld looks to have another live chance in the Tote Trifecta Rollover Handicap with Diplomat, second twice already and clearly capable of much better than he showed at Fairyhouse.
This looks a fair race, though, with recent winners Suehail and Loreto both taking the eye.
The action draws to a close with the Tote Return All Profits To Irish Racing Maiden and Tandem, another from the Weld operation, will be fancied to better his promising Naas debut second.
