Keniry tops the table

Liam Keniry led the jockeys’ championship race for half an hour after giving Archie Babe a fine ride to win the Racing Schools Apprentice Handicap, the first race of the 2003 turf Flat season, at Doncaster today.

Keniry, who is with Andrew Balding‘s stable, drove John Quinn’s charge through on the rails to lead inside the final quarter mile and kept him up to his work to hold off the determined challenge of Broughton Zest by three-quarters of a length.