It was a good weekend for Colin Keane’s hopes of regaining the Irish flat jockeys’ championship.

He rode a double at Dundalk on Friday night, and with Donnacha O’Brien drawing a blank on the same card, the Meath jockey’s lead grew to three - 87 winners to 84. With Keane travelling to Ayr on Saturday to ride Buffer Zone in the Ayr Gold Cup, O’Brien looked to have a good opportunity to claw back that deficit at Gowran Park but the rains came, and now Keane will be able to ride at the meeting which has been rescheduled to this Thursday.