DARRAGH O’Keeffe took the riding honours with a quickfire 64/1 double in the opening two races on the card aboard Ballyearl and Eastern Wind.

Ballyearl was the lesser fancied of two Henry de Bromhead runners in the opening Tipperary Town Maiden Hurdle, but certainly didn’t go unbacked with 14/1 morning quotes shrinking to just 11/2 by the off, and the Dr Peter FitzGerald-owned gelding got the better of Portetta on the run-in to score by two and a half lengths.