Racecourse record
Galway racing stats
176 races at Galway over the last twelve months, across 23 race days. Here is how the track actually behaves - starting with the question everyone asks.
Do favourites win at Galway?
Favourites won 27% of their 192 runs here in the last twelve months (52 winners).
Joint favourites are counted. Across all UK and Irish racing the figure sits around a third, so anything well below that marks Galway out as a track where the market gets caught out more often than usual.
How our own picks do here
18% of our 174 settled picks at Galway won, and 47% placed.
Every pick is published in advance and settled at Betfair starting prices, losers included. Some tracks suit the model better than others and we publish both. Past results never guarantee future ones.
The going it really races on
- Yielding789 runners
- Good590 runners
- Soft385 runners
- Good To Yielding270 runners
- Yielding To Soft217 runners
- Heavy79 runners
Distances
- 2m½f429 runners
- 7f366 runners
- 2m6½f334 runners
- 1m½f303 runners
- 1m4f290 runners
- 2m2f166 runners
- 2m1f146 runners
- 2m6f90 runners
Race class
- Class 1102 runners
Winning-most trainers at Galway
- W P Mullins16 from 106 · 15%
- Joseph Patrick O'Brien9 from 108 · 8%
- A P O'Brien7 from 40 · 18%
- Gordon Elliott7 from 93 · 8%
- Declan Queally6 from 19 · 32%
- Andrew Slattery6 from 47 · 13%
- Gavin Cromwell6 from 74 · 8%
- Cian Collins5 from 20 · 25%
Winning-most jockeys at Galway
- W J Lee9 from 30 · 30%
- Jack Kennedy7 from 38 · 18%
- Paul Townend6 from 35 · 17%
- Dylan Browne McMonagle6 from 44 · 14%
- Daniel King5 from 40 · 13%
- Gary Carroll5 from 43 · 12%
- Wayne Lordan4 from 23 · 17%
- Ronan Whelan4 from 34 · 12%
Figures cover 2,368 runners in settled races at Galway over the last twelve months and update as new meetings run. See every course, today’s card or recent results.