THE Keadeen Hotel Handicap carried a winners’ purse of almost €30,000, and the five-year-old Perry Mason (Advertise) was brave in winning the 20-runner contest by a nose from the favourite, both of them shouldering 9st 5lbs.

Maurice Ahern trains the gelding beside Kildangan Stud, and he sports the trainer’s silks. Ahern had to move from his Cork base near Mallow due to rapeseed, and its negative effect on horses, and in just over a month since the change he has sent out two winners.