Rowdy Yeats strikes for Colin Keane at the Curragh Colin Keane gained a much needed winner in his bid to retain the jockeys championship when partnering the Noel Meade trained Rowdy Yeats to win the McDonnell's Bar Newbridge Rated Race at the Curragh. Trailing leader Dylan Browne McMonagle by five at the start of the day, Keane narrowed the gap further when landing his first win on the card. Tracking the leaders from the outset, Keane delivered the 10/1 chance from off the pace to head Charasson over a furlong out. Keeping on strongly inside the final furlong, the Make Believe colt held the staying on Gangsta Man by half-a-length. Meade said:- “It was a monsoon in Roscommon and the ground was very deep and heavy and he just didn’t handle it. “When he turned in he just left him alone. There is soft ground but that was bottomless. “He was really flying at home. He’s a very good horse and I’ve rarely seen a horse work better than him, no matter what he’d work with. “The first day he ran he ran against Arizona Blaze and on his second run as a two-year-old Joe Murphy beat me with Cercene. So two Group 1 winners beat him on his two runs. “He came out and won a six furlong maiden and then he was beaten by a very good horse of Paddy Twomey’s in Cork (Currawood). “Then I ran him over six and it was far too short for him. I’d say a mile would suit him even better, he said he was waiting for them there in front. “He’s in the sales because I own him in partnership with Ballylinch. I don’t know if he’ll run again before that, he might. “He’s a very nice horse and there is a lot of racing in him. You love to have him, he’s a real nice horse and I’d say he can still go on quite a bit.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson.
