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Win number seven for Lynam's Keke

Keke has it sewn up inside the final furlongKeke has it sewn up inside the final furlong
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Owned by Andrew Cohen's Wood Hall Stud Limited,  Keke is a grand sprinter and won for the seventh time when landing the Colm White Bookmaker Handicap over six furlongs at Naas.

Backed from 9/1 into 13/2 before the off, the Dandy Man gelding is often held up but broke well and found himself in front here. Billy Lee, recording his fifth win on the horse, let him stride on along the stands' side rail and drove him out to beat Indigo Dream by two and a-half lengths

Winning trainer Eddie Lynam remarked “He’d been missing the kick a bit towards the end of last year.

We were making excuses for him, and I thought it could just have been that he was struggling in the high 90s.

 “That was a 0-100 but it wasn’t the strongest 0-100. He did it well.

“I don’t know if he’ll be still going in handicaps. We had the Habitat in mind after this, but we’ll have to see. He’ll probably go over 100 and some of those premier handicaps are only 100."

The Habitat Handicap at The Curragh on Guineas weekend is a 100=10st contest and Keke was runner-up in it last year. 

Additional reporting by Gary Carson

1st
Keke (GB) (12)
13/2
Tote €7.80 €2.40
2nd
2.5L
3/1Fav
€1.60
3rd
0.5L
12/1
€3.70
4th
nose
7/1
About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.