Pat Smullen double eats into Colin Keane’s lead in title race

The nip and tuck nature of the title race between Pat Smullen and Colin Keane was exemplified on two-year-old day in Naas as the nine-times champion registered a double and Keane a single success, balancing Tuesday’s outcome in Dundalk. Keane now leads 80-76.

Pat Smullen doubled-up on favourites Aurora Eclipse and London Icon and the performance of the latter colt, trained by Adrian Keatley for Alan Harte, proved the highlight of the day as he made most of the running to land the one-mile Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden in convincing fashion from Night Of Power.

The Elzaam colt, third in a hot Curragh maiden on his debut, was sent off 9/10 favourite and gave his supporters no worries, scoring by three and a quarter lengths.