Rowdy Yeats wins well for Meade & Powell Runner-up in both starts at two including a course and distance event in September, Rowdy Yeats (5/1) made a winning reappearance when making all in the Space Traveller At Compas Stallions (C & G) Maiden at Naas. Jamie Powell was able to set fairly steady fractions on the Make Believe colt in the seven-furlong contest and took a couple of lengths out of the field over a furlong out. The Ballylinch Stud-owned winner kept on well to defeat market leader Storm Piece by three and a half lengths. Winning trainer Noel Meade said: “He’s a nice horse. We fancied him when he went to the Curragh last year, we never thought he was bred to be a five furlong horse, but he was beat by a very good horse and they were a long way clear of the third. “I thought I’d give him time to mature but I found it very hard to get him back and I don’t think I really had him 100 per cent when he came here at the end of the season.  “He has trained very well and I fancied him today.  “I put him in the other race (Madrid Handicap) as I thought he’d probably get 85 or 86 and Colin (Keane) said he could maybe win it but then he gave him 91 and I said I’d stay in a maiden.  “I don’t know where he goes now but there is no reason why he can’t run in good races, I think he’s a good horse.  “Jamie thought he might get further. He said he travelled really smoothly but parked a little bit in front, just got a little bit idle, but he said he was full of horse.  “Colin has ridden him in all his work and he likes him a lot.” Quotes from Gary Carson
