Record-chasing Colin Keane on track to finish season with a flourish

With his boss, Ger Lyons, continuing to thrive and having recently hit his own landmark by saddling his 1000th winner, Keane has much to continue to look forward to

Colin Keane is relishing the challenge of the Longines Irish Champions Weekend at Leopardstown and The Curragh on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September. Picture: Healy Racing

If the momentum gathered and strike-rate achieved to date can be carried through to the end of the current Flat season, Colin Keane will not only be crowned champion jockey for the third time, but he will also set new figures for the number of winners in a Flat season in Ireland.

As he sat down Tuesday afternoon to look ahead to Longines Irish Champions Weekend, which takes place in Leopardstown and The Curragh on Saturday and Sunday week respectively, he could look back upon 104 winners for the season, just 22 shy of the current record, held by Joseph O’Brien, and look forward to plenty of opportunity to bridge that gap.