DOMINANT trainers has been the story of Galway in my time heading to ‘The Races’, initially Dermot Weld and Willie Mullins more recently, but the meeting had a different look during the first two days this year.

Aidan O’Brien may have won both juvenile flat maidens but the 12 other races had 12 different winning trainers, including a pair of British raiders on Tuesday, though it was Mullins who trained one of the most impressive winners on opening night, Sirius in the Connacht Hotel Handicap.