Odds-on Keats wins Killarney opener

Keats justified odds-on favouritism with an all-the-way success in the opening Dawn Milk Run Race at Killarney.

Second to his stable companion Napa Valley at the Curragh last time, on Pretty Polly day, Keats was today again ridden by Wayne Lordan.

The Ballydoyle Galileo colt, a son of Group One speedster two-year-old, Airwave, beat the promising Real Force by a length and a quarter.

"He races lazily and did the whole way down the back. He is a horse who tries very hard and I was trying to keep him going forward because he doesn't quicken if something came to him so I was trying to keep the rev's up,” reported Lordan.

"He had a good run at the Curragh the last day and coming here was the one to beat.

"I felt the last day he would have every chance of getting 1m4f and still think the same today."

(TW & EM)