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Galway Plate and Hurdle set to go ahead as seven-day festival gets green light

Time to celebrate: the Galway Hurdle and Plate get the green light for 2020
Time to celebrate: the Galway Hurdle and Plate have received the green light for 2020Credit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

The Guinness Galway Hurdle and the Tote.com Galway Plate, beacons of the jumps programme in Ireland, are to go ahead after all this year at a seven-day behind-closed-doors festival.

It will be a festival like no other without any crowds but racecourse manager Michael Moloney is happy to finally put any speculation to bed that Galway would be without some of its flagship races when it kicks off on July 27.

He said: "It's brilliant news. We are all clutching for a return to some form of normality and the situation has been changing very fast over the past number of weeks."

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