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The Galway Races is a Horse-racing festival that takes place for a week starting on the last Monday in July. The races are held at Ballybrit race course in Galway, Ireland and are the only seven-day race meeting in Ireland (or the United Kingdom).

The main days of the festival are on Wednesday, when the Galway Plate is held and Thursday when the Galway Hurdle and Ladies' Day take place.

The first racing festival held in Ballybrit was a two-day event with the first race meeting on Tuesday, 17th August, 1869. The summer festival was extended to a 3 day meeting in 1959, 4 days in 1971, 5 days in 1974, 6 days in 1982 and 7 days in 1999.

Race meetings also take place in September and October, but these are not as popular as the summer festival.

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