'Thrilled' Paddy Twomey maintains impressive strike rate at Killarney

Colin Keane rode a treble and trainer Joseph O’Brien saddled a double to complete an across-the-cards four-timer

Emphatic Answer and Shane Crosse (no, 2) race through the bunch to win the Irish Examiner Handicap. Picture: Healy Racing

On the final day of the May festival in Killarney, champion jockey Colin Keane rode a treble, trainer Joseph O’Brien saddled a double, to complete an across-the-cards four-timer, and Paddy Twomey took the most valuable race on the card, the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Fillies’ Race, with stable debutant La Petite Coco.

The last-named, bought by Team Valor after her second run for Andrew Kinirons, was ridden prominently by Billy Lee and stretched out well to bring her trainer’s record at this venue for the last five years to an impressive 50 percent.