Galway is Soft (on Flat course) and Good to Yielding (on National Hunt track) after 15mm of rain overnight.

Day two of the festival is forecast to be mainly dry with possible heavy showers tonight (approximately 5-10mm rain).

Today's eight race Flat card gets under way at 4.35pm.

Ado McGuinness' Saltonstall is gunning for three in a row in the featured COLM QUINN BMW Mile Handicap at 6.15pm.

Glorious Goodwood begins today on Heavy (Soft in places) ground with plenty of Irish interest in the featured Group 1 Goodwood Cup at 3.35pm. 16mm of rain fell overnight at the West Sussex track.

Four Irish-trained runners line up in the £500,000 contest in which the remarkable Stradivarius is favourite to land the race for the fifth year in a row.