Seventeen horses have been declared for Monday’s feature race at Galway, The carlton.ie/galwaycity (Q.R.) handicap that has a total purse of €75,000.

Check out all the runners and riders for the Galway Festival in our cards and entries section.

Dermot Weld has trained the winner of this race in each of the last two years and this time relies on top-weight Ghimaar in the capable hands of Robbie McNamara.

The Likely favourite is the John Kiely trained Indian Pace, fifth in this race last year before going on to win the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

Ambrose McCurtin will do the steering aboard Indian Pace on Monday evening.