Keane shines on the Job

Fregada showed a nice turn of foot to make a winning debut in the opening Bermingham Cameras EBF Maiden at the Curragh this afternoon.

Ralph Beckett has given the green light for Bluestocking to be supplemented for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe next week.

I'm from Mooncoin in Co Kilkenny. Horses were not in my background whatsoever. My mum, God rest her, brought me to pony riding lessons when I was little. Teenage years came and the ponies kind of got forgotten about. Then I just took it up again out of the blue when I was about 19 - it was my first time sitting on a racehorse. I went to Henry de Bromhead's for a couple of weeks. From there, I worked for Kevin Prendergast on the Curragh. I was there for about six months, but I got very homesick. I was the only girl there at that time. I was riding out in both yards. It was different back then to now. After Kevin Prendergast, I went to Eoin Griffin in Slieverue. It was close to home and I was able to get lifts there and go home again in the evening. I stayed there for the best part of 12 years. Eoin had a lot of faith in me riding work and I rode work on all the good horses. I worked with Johnny Murtagh, Nina Carberry and Barry Geraghty up the Old Vic. Back in those days, they were my heroes. I went racing a lot as well, I took the horses to the races.