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Treble for Lee as Bras gives O'Brien double

Quatre Bras and Billy Lee hold off Camino LadQuatre Bras and Billy Lee hold off Camino Lad
© Healy Racing Photos

Billy Lee rattled off a quick treble at Dundalk tonight when Quatre Bras claimed the ten furlong handicap.

It was also a double for trainer Richard O'Brien, who had provided Lee with his first winner on the card courtesy of Usuario Amigo .

Quatre Bras was produced to lead in the centre a furlong-and-a-half from home and the 9/2 shot saw off a determined challenge from Camino Lad to record a half-length success.

O'Brien said: "He is (more than capable on his day) and here suits him. I don't know why - I don't think his form is better here necessarily but, the way the races work out on the flat track, he has a little gear and he can use it.

"The handicapper has been very fair to him throughout the summer. He has kept on dropping him and he had a chance off that mark.

"He just had to do things right. He can get himself a little bit out of his ground early.

"Billy is riding out of his skin and it is great."

The treble moved Lee 11 clear of Colin Keane in the jockeys' title race.

(Quotes by Michael Graham)

1st
9/2
Tote €6.50 €2.00
2nd
0.5L
5/1
€2.50
3rd
3.25L
66/1
€13.90
4th
nk
11/2
bf
2.25L
2/1Fav
About Gary Carson
Gary started out as a trainee/assistant journalist with the Sporting Life newspaper and has worked in the racing industry for over 25 years. He has been with the Press Association since 2013 and won the Irish Field Nap Table in 2016. He enjoys working with horses and trained his own horse, Mamaslittlestar, to win a point-to-point in 2019.