Rhythm has favourite backers singing the blues

CHAMPION jockey Paul Carberry took the honours at yesterday’s bank holiday meeting at Naas, registering a double on Alpha Rhythm and Harry The Ear in the two hurdle events on the card.

Winner of a bumper on the track last summer, Alpha Rhythm looked in trouble turning for home in the Thoroughbred County Maiden Hurdle but closed gradually before hitting the front on the run-in to beat odds-on favourite Native Churchtown by a length and a half.

Alpha Rhythm was ending a frustrating run over hurdles and his trainer Noel Meade expressed the opinion that they have found the key to the five year old - producing him late.