Colin Keane warms up for huge Westover King George ride with 186-1 four-timer

Friday: Down Royal

Colin Keane warmed up for the plum ride on King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes favourite Westover in style as he took the first four races at Down Royal on Friday evening, recording a 186-1 four-timer.

Keane, who will reunite with the Irish Derby winner at Ascot on Saturday in the £1.25m feature Group 1, landed the more modest Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden worth €8,850 to the winner to kick off a good evening's work.

The champion jockey steered the Ger Lyons-trained Amazing Show to victory at the the second time of asking in the opening 7f maiden. Lyons completed a double when Hazy Mehmory justified 11-5 favouritism in the 1m2½f maiden which brought up a hat-trick for Keane, having taken the previous 5f handicap aboard Liam McAteer's Fine Distraction.

The in-form rider was not done there as he made it four in a row when helping Massaman get back to winning ways for the first time in six starts, since Keane himself rode him to win a Gowran Park handicap in April.

"It was the most pressure I felt in my training career to date," joked winning trainer Jack Davison to Racing TV. "Thankfully we didn’t let Colin Keane down."

The rider was beaten on his other two mounts at Down Royal but heads to Ascot in prolific form as he bids to end a 46-race losing streak at the Berkshire venue on 6-4 King George favourite Westover.

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