Gowran Park report: Cornman makes all to get off mark

Cornman and Colin Keane win the Irish EBF Supporting Irish Champions Weekend (C & G) Maiden from Purple Dawn. Picture: Healy Racing.

Having reached career milestones over the weekend, Ger Lyons and Colin Keane continued on their winning ways with a double in Gowran Park Wednesday, highlighted when once-raced Cornman justified 5/2 favouritism in the Irish EBF Supporting Irish Champions Weekend 2-Y-0 Maiden which opened proceedings.

Keane kept it simple on the Dark Angel colt, an eye-catching fourth on debut in Roscommon, making all and staying on stoutly in the closing stages to keep promising debutant Purple Dawn at bay by a length and a quarter, the pair stretching five lengths clear of the remainder.