See Double You rolls back the years

GREAT scenes at Roscommon on Tuesday evening when See Double You won the Leo Dolan Memorial Hurdle.

Ordinary 16-year-olds don’t win horse races. But See Double You is no ordinary 16-year-old, and you could see how much it meant to his trainer and owner Ronan McNally.

He had his horse in tremendous form, and the Saddlers’ Hall gelding stayed on strongly under a fine ride from Darragh O’Keeffe, who is just three years older than his partner.

The Ladys Master won a two-and-a-half-mile handicap chase at Tipperary in September 1987 as a 16-year-old, but no 16-year-old had won a race in Ireland since. Until Tuesday evening.