Keane doubles up on Shot

Wild Shot swooped inside the final furlong to run out a cosy winner of the first division of the mile-and-a-half handicap at Tipperary this evening.

Colin Keane held his mount up towards the rear before coming wide down the straight on the 8/1 shot.

The John McConnell-trained gelding got to the front inside the final furlong and was easing up late on to score by a length-and-three-quarters from Custers Mistake

Wild Shot, a six-time winner at Dundalk, was recording his first turf win and had a mark 5lb lower on the grass.

It was a double on the card for Keane, after Sacred Bridge s win in the feature, and he said:-

"He won well and has very good form on the all-weather. It was his first time transferring it to the grass and it is proper quick ground today which is probably the quickest he's got on grass.

"I had ridden him once at Dundalk, he is a bonny little horse, is very straightforward and takes his time to come into it. The went nice and even and it suited him."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)