Comfort Zone favourite for opening day feature at Galway Races

Too Bossy For Us is an obvious candidate following his good run at the Curragh. Still quite lightly raced and representing Willie Mullins, who has won five of the last eight renewals of this race, his claims are clear.

Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 - 06:09

Tommy Lyons

Galway’s seven-day summer festival gets underway with a seven-race programme and Comfort Zone can land the opening day feature, the Connacht Hotel Qualified Riders’ Handicap, for Joseph O’Brien and Derek O’Connor.

The six-year-old dual-purpose performer contested the two-mile-four Ascot Stakes on his most recent outing and had plenty of work to do from a wide draw. He also didn’t enjoy the best of luck at a crucial stage and ran brilliantly to be beaten just three parts of a length behind Ascending.

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