Keep Up makes all for comfortable Killarney success Keep Up (15/8f) returned to winning ways with a third career win at Killarney today, landing the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Novice Hurdle for champion trainer Willie Mullins, champion jockey Paul Townend and owner Donald Galt. Successful in two of her four previous starts but beaten by today’s rival Kamikaz Du Plessis at the recent Galway festival, Keep Up today made all the running and while her jumping was untidy at times and she guessed at the final flight, scored by 10 lengths from Kilbunny Supersonic. Townend reported “she’s improving the whole time. She was still immature in front, having to make her own running, going around bends and at her jumps, but she settled it quite well. I think a couple of them underperformed in the race though. “It was sketchy down over the last three (hurdles). I wanted to drop the hammer off the last bend and bank on a couple of jumps, but I was happy enough going down to the last, although sometimes it’s often the worst thing you can do, because you’re indecisive then. If you’re going down there all guns blazing, at least you’re going down there on your own terms. “She stays well and can probably go to three miles if she wants. She handled the ground very well.”
