AIDAN O’Brien has chipped in with a few vital winners for Colin Keane as the jockey’s championship nears its conclusion and the Ballydoyle trainer supplied the former champion with one of his easiest winners of the season as Cartouche signalled that she could yet progress into a very good filly.

This daughter of Galileo struggled at Gowran Park last time having previously shaped with promise at Dundalk a couple of months ago but as she switched to testing ground for the first time in the Ballyhane Stud Fillies Maiden, the 4/1 chance took a dramatic step forward.