People are talking about the Galway Races and the great start they had last evening with the sun shining and the course looking immaculate.Martin Burke was telling us that he got a tip for a horse in the Bumper and noticed that the trainer had three horses running all at long prices.Martin had a flutter and was disappointed when one of the stable mates won at 14 to one and the other stable mate was third.
His namesake Joe Burke was telling a true story about a neighbour who traded in cattle and about this time of the year he was returning home in his lorry from Smithfield Market in Dublin when he gave a lift to a young man. There was a checkpoint near Athlone and the Garda found his lorry without tax,poor brakes, wipers
indicator light and dirty mudguards. As he drove the neighbour was feeling very sad and when he reached Naughtons Garage to told the hitch hiker that he was turning off at that point.
The hitch hiker asked if he was worried about being checked by the Garda.When the driver said that naturally he was the hitch hiker told him not to worry and gave him the Garda's notebook. A good pickpocketer for once.
The luck in the weather seems to be keeping in for the races as the sun is shining.