Horse Racing Tips: Farout tipped to score on day one of Galway Festival

Willie Mullins has a sensational record at the Galway Festival, and the Closutton handler will fancy landing the coveted 18:40 prize on Monday, and he will saddle the eye-catching Farout, who is a 5/1 chance for the Connacht Hotel (Q.R.) Handicap. Proving popular with our racing tipsters, Farout, who was second at the Punchestown Festival a few months, has been napped by three tipsters for today's evening including Ian Gaughran from The Irish Herald and Fortunatus from the Sheffield Star.

Other notable naps running at Galway today include the classy Hms Seahorse, who is a red-hot odds-on favourite for the 17:40 contest, and is the best bet of Mercury of the Daily Post, while The Sunday Express tipster has picked out the 7/2 shot Your Eyes Only, who lines up in the 19:50 event, and that three-year-old is another contender for the aforementioned Mullins, who is sure to have a strong week at the summer highlight.

There's alternative racing at Ayr this afternoon, and the most popular nap of the entire day runs at the Scottish track and that is the Julie Camacho-trained Maple Jack, who is a 2/1 chance for the 14:10 contest. Fourth at the track last time out, Camacho's raider is expected to get a lot closer today and is the best bet of the likes of Rory Delargy of The Irish Field and Dean Kilbryde of the East Anglian Daily Times.

Archie Watson's Noble Anthem is another 2/1 chance bidding for glory at Ayr this afternoon, and that charge has been tipped three times for the 15:20 race, and the likes of Garry Owen from the Daily Record and Jon Freeman from The i are backing that charge to land a second win at Ayr in a row.

Matt Polley of The Ipswich Star was in superb tipping form over the weekend as he notched up winning naps on both Saturday and Sunday, and he will bid for the hat-trick on Monday and he heads to Windsor's evening card for his best bet of the day. Polley has sided with the David Menuisier-trained Baez, who is a 7/4 favourite for the 20:40 race, and the daughter of Sixties Icon is looking to break her maiden tag, and having finished a decent second at Chepstow last time out she will be attempting to go one better today.

Steve Mullington from 888Sport is the other tipster in terrific form as like Polley he bagged two winning naps over the weekend, and Mullington is napping the 1/2 favourite San Giovanni in the 13:50 at Newton Abbot, and that Harry Fry-trained jolly should be very tough to beat over the sticks at the Devon track.

Expert Eye from On The Nose tops the naps table and the high-flying tipster heads to Ayr this afternoon and has napped the 3/1 shot Signora Camacho in the 13:35 race, while the second placed Melissa Jones from The Mirror Online heads to Newton Abbot's Jumps card and has napped the 4/1 chance Peterborough in the 15:35 event.