AN absolutely amazing run of form for Darragh O’Keeffe continued into this fixture as he notched up another double which put the rider on the 26-winner mark for what is already shaping up to be an unforgettable campaign.
Just 13 months after riding his first winner, O’Keeffe’s tally for the season at the end of this fixture would have been good enough to win him last season’s conditional rider’s championship, and it would have guaranteed him the runner-up spot in this division in the previous two campaigns. The rider completed his brace on Michael Hourigan’s Humm Baby in the Kieran Kelly Memorial Beginners Chase. Make My Heart Fly looked to have been left in charge here when Eamon High fell three out but the former had no answer to Humm Baby’s sustained charge which carried the Chris Tilly-owned daughter of Mahler to the front after the last. The well-backed 100/30 shot had two and three-quarter lengths to spare at the line.
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