Insayshable another for Lyons & Keane

Ger Lyons and Colin Keane continued their great start to the season, as they claimed they the Leopardstown 'Club 30' (C & G) Maiden with Insayshable

Fourth on his debut at Naas last September, the son of Rajj was sent off a 6/1 chance this afternoon in the colours of owner Homer Scott.

Settled in mid-division, he was seventh three furlongs out, but soon made his move on the outer.

He was pushed along in pursuit of the leader from a furlong and a half out, and he was ridden to the front inside the final furlong, keeping on well to score by a length and a quarter.

The Willie McCreery trained newcomer Naturalist (20/1) ran well to finish second under Billy Lee, while Venice Beach (7/4 to 9/4), who kicked for home two furlongs out, was another head back in third under Seamie Heffernan for Aidan O'Brien.

O'Brien also saddled the well-backed 7/4 favourite (from 5/2) Auckland but he faded tamely in the straight, eventually finishing tenth.

Ger Lyons said afterwards: "It was a grand performance and he has a great temperament for the job.

"I would have liked to start him off over a mile but we were adamant that he wanted the mile-and-a-quarter and he's after doing that well.

"We've his full-sister at home, a two-year-old, and we had Ainippe (half-sister).

"If he didn't run accordingly today we would have been worried as he's up there with the nice ones in the yard.

"He was always a nice horse and Emmet (McNamara) gave him a lovely educational spin in Naas.

"He's grown over the winter and I think he's still on the leg. We'd hope there is more improvement in him.

"He's just a nice horse. I thought he did it well and Colin gave him a lovely ride.

"He was crying to come out here today. The reason he didn't go to Naas was because it was heavy. He wants better ground but he doesn't want extremes.

"Homer wants us to think big and aim big but the horse will tell us."

Additional reporting by Gary Carson