My big punting events of the summer - French Open, Wimbledon and the World Cup - have helped me achieve over 300pts profit on blog bets so far this year. So now it's time for a bookmaker financed racing trip to Galway. I've been to Galway several times in the last decade but have not been to the summer racing festival since 1995. I'm looking forward to it.

Anyone who has read any of my Ireland track visit reports will know that my betting strategy concerns trading value prices on-course on the Irish tote. Galway of course has a very strong market so trading discrepancies are likely to be minimal compared to Ireland's smaller meetings. But it should be a good craic nonetheless.

As a consequence there will be reduced blog recommendations over the next ten days or so.