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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Champion Keane completes Naas double

Wed 24th Jul 2024, 20:47

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© Photo Healy Racing

Five-time champion jockey Colin Keane again heads this year's title race and recorded a final-races double at Naas today, on the Michael O'Callaghan-trained Facethepuckout (9/2) in the concluding Bert House Stud Handicap.

The eight-year-old's previous win was gained over today's course and seven-furlong-distance and today scored a battling success when scoring by a head and a half-length from Physique and Sara Valentina

O'Callaghan commented “that's a little surprise because I said to Colin that the horse is well but will probably just take blow, as there is a race for him in Galway. He said at the furlong pole he 'exploded' and went for girths, but filled himself up and he said he is just well.

“He's only won a head, he's an eight-year-old and is a fun horse.

“He's in the Ahonoora at Galway and might get in off a low weight. He'd carry a penalty in that or we might look at another ordinary handicap in the week where he might be re-assessed.”

Quotes from Gary Carson

1st
9/2
Tote €5.20 €2.00
2nd
hd
6/4Fav
€1.20
3rd
0.5L
11/2
4th
1.25L
28/1
About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.