Supermacs will be frying chicken to beat the band..
It's expected up to 12-thousand Supermacs snack boxes will be eaten at this week's Galway Races.
Punters return to Ballybrit at full capacity for the first time since before the pandemic today.
Half a million pints of Guinness will be pulled and 500 bottles of champagne will be popped.
150-thousand are due to attend the racing festival between now and Sunday.
🏇 OPENING DAY 🏇
🗣️Check out what's coming up today at the Galway Races#giddyforgalway #galwayraces pic.twitter.com/a2994j9Yx6— Galway Races (@Galway_Races) July 25, 2022
The actual racing gets underway this evening.
Patrick Mullins will be aiming to win the the summer’s most coveted amateur prize, the Connacht Hotel Handicap at the 16th time of asking.
He rides the favourite Echoes In Rain for his father Willie in the day one feature which goes to post at 20 past 6.
The first of seven races in Ballybrit goes to post at 10 past 5.
