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Galway Plate preview: Donn McClean best bets By Donn McClean 18:26 · WED July 28, 2021 Donn McClean has two against the field for the tote Galway Plate including an interesting JP McManus runner. They reckon that over 40,000 people went to Ballybrit for the first Galway Plate in 1869. That is about 240,000 fewer people than went to Ballybrit to see Pope John Paul II 110 years later – it can hold a crowd all right – but it is 39,000 more than there will be in attendance today. These are th...