COLIN Keane drove locally-trained Escaping Thejungle (7/1) home by a short head in the Dolly’s Bar & Pantry Handicap to give him a treble on the card in Bellewstown on Tuesday.

The always-prominent Escaping Thejungle won a three-way thrust for the line with Fair Taxes and Aurora Nova, with the trio separated by a pair of short heads. The five-year-old mare was trained by Eamon Delany for his son Alan Delany, who said: “I was delighted when I saw the yielding ground on entry. I was a bit concerned an hour ago whether we would run or not (on drying ground).