Keane gets tactics right on Meld winner Geryon Perhaps Thomas Tuchel could learn a thing or two about tactics from six-time Irish champion jockey Colin Keane who excelled on Geryon in Leopardstown's feature, the BOYLE Sports Meld Stakes, over a mile and a furlong. The well-backed 11/10 favourite, owned by Newtown Anner Stud Farm, was slowest from stalls in the Group 3 contest and Keane quickly assessed the pace up front to be slower than desired, so made a decisive move to take up the running after a furlong and a-half. After that, the grey son of Lope De Vega didn't see another rival and he kicked away in the straight to beat Cowardofthecounty by three and a-quarter lengths. Winning trainer Ger Lyons said "He was slow away.  "He was unlucky in Navan and then he got blocked in the Curragh. If you look at him, a big, strapping, strong horse, he needed to grow up and he did.  "Colin just said 'come on, let's do it' and I thought that was a good performance, but no more than we expected. We'd have been very disappointed if he didn't do that."  Additional reporting by John O'Riordan
