Keane resumes with treble, as Coogan bows out Colin Keane resumed winning ways with a Dundalk-treble today, as the six-time champion jockey completed the feat on the Michael O'Callaghan-trained Genoah (1/1f) in the concluding View Restaurant At Dundalk Stadium Handicap. Keane recently returned from a break having last ridden in Ireland on December 20 and today resumed with wins for trainers Danny Murphy and rookie Cian Hughes. Keane’s easiest success came with Genoah, which scored by 1.25 lengths from Annaghmccanns. Trainer O'Callaghan reported "it was a different type of race to the maiden that he won but that race worked out very well and three winners came out of it. He has been in good form at home and Colin said that he has grown up a good bit even since the time he won in November. “He said he is maturing into a lovely horse and will get 1m4f. "I think there’s a race for him at the end of the month in Lingfield: it is the all-weather middle-distance trial. It is a 45 grand race over 1m2f, so we might go there with him." Afterwards, stalls handler Benji Coogan retired following “12 or 13 years” service, with the well-known ex-jockey describing his Apprentice Jockeys Championship-third-placing to Michael Kinane as being “good at the time” and his latter career as “mighty, great craic.” Quotes from Michael Graham
