O’KEEFFE was the name to follow at Wexford on Wednesday evening as Darragh O’Keeffe rode a double and Sean O’Keeffe also chipped in with a winner.

The O’Keeffe youngsters that starred on this eight-race programme are unrelated, Darragh hailing from Doneraile in Cork and Sean from the nearby village of Taghmon.

Darragh O’Keeffe rode the third double of his career and his 23rd winner overall when taking the BoyleSports Beginners Chase on Bay Hill (13/2) for Padraig Roche.

O’Keeffe now has two winners left on his 7lb claim and the J.P. McManus victor, on chase debut, beat Jan Maat by a length.

“That’s nine wins now (five flat, three hurdles, and this chase) and he is a great little servant. He is a summer horse and as long as the ground is good we will keep him going,” said Roche.

O’Keeffe also struck in the McManus silks on the Pat Flynn-trained Buttons And Bows (7/1) in the Calor Gas Handicap Hurdle.

This Flemensfirth mare got there late to touch off the 9/10 favourite Song Of Namibia by a neck. The runner-up had been bidding to follow up on a Downpatrick win from last Sunday.

“Her mother won for me and J.P. as well. I actually sold her to J.P. and then he gave me this one out of her, so it’s brilliant,” reflected Flynn.

Sean O’Keeffe won the second division of the Loch Garman (Mares) Maiden Hurdle on the Paul Nolan-trained odds-on shot Cash Me Outside. This Gerry Murtagh-owned 4/7 chance had to work to fend off Capture The Action by half a length.

It was a measure of compensation for Nolan and O’Keeffe after they lost Positive Outlook, who sadly suffered a fatal injury when in a clear lead in the first division of this two-and-a-half-miler.

Buttevant Lady eventually landed the spoils at odds of 80/1 for trainer Tim Townend, father of champion jockey Paul, and rider Ricky Doyle.

“The owner (John Hutch) had a tenner each-way on her at 100/1,” revealed Townend in the aftermath. She had a little wind operation and that seems to have worked. Her dam is a full-sister to Synchronised.”

KATY Brown’s Effernock Fizz showed her 66/1 success at Tipperary was no fluke, when following-up in the BoyleSports Novice Hurdle.

She won by 15 lengths after making all at ‘the junction’, and adopted the same front-running tactics here, coming home three and a quarter lengths to the good, with Adam Short again in the plate. Owned and bred by Thomas Sheridan, the 5/1 chance is likely to be seen at Bellewstown next.

“The person who plays the biggest part in this is my partner Danny, he rides her out every day,” Brown revealed.

“She is quirky enough and has had her problems but hopefully we have got to the bottom of them now and she can win a few more.”

Brown was out of luck with Rum And Black in the concluding BoyleSports INH Flat Race, with reserve Cabin Hill (20/1) making the most of the opportunity on what was his first start.

A seventh winner this month for the in-form John McConnell yard, the successful Mahler gelding stayed on best in the closing stages to beat the 8/11 favourite Robaddan by a length.

Tom Reilly was aboard the Rockview Racing Club-owned bay, and he divulged: “He had done a few nice bits at home with some of John’s good horses so we kinda knew where we were going.

“He was very green and is still very babyish. He is one maybe that could win a winners’ bumper. I think there is still a lot of improvement in him.”

Declan Queally, who was on Robaddan, was later handed a one-day ban for failing to give his mount sufficient time to respond to the whip.

The stewards also suspended Eoin O’Brien for two days for using his whip with excessive frequency on third-place finisher Conquering Tara.

GAVIN Cromwell and Jonathan Moore are in-form and struck in the BoyleSports Handicap Chase with the well-supported Top Of The Charts (9/1 to 5/1). Owned by the Eightsnotfours Syndicate and making his debut in handicap company, the gelding had a tussle with Churchtown Glen (4/1f) from the second last. Neither were fluent at the last, but Top Of The Charts pulled out more on the run-in, to prevail by three and a quarter lengths. Unfortunately the 13-year-old Fergiethelegend suffered a fatal injury when falling four out, his rider Cathal Landers dislocating his shoulder

Smithscorner was another well-backed winner and he comfortably accounted for his nine rivals in the Adare Manor Opportunity Handicap Chase. Backed from 8/1 in early to 4/1 on-course, the Michael Kennedy-trained eight-year-old was given a patient ride by Conor Orr. In front after the last, he asserted on the run-in, winning by six and a half lengths in the colours of owner Charles Duggan.