Tony Keenan is concerned about the big two’s dominance of the winter game

IRISH RACING
Tony Keenan

Gordon Elliott

The week of Irish Champions Weekend told us plenty about where the priorities of the Irish race-going public lie, as if we didn’t know already. On day one of the feature meeting of the Irish Flat season, Leopardstown hosted the two highest-rated three-year-olds in Europe, Alpha Centauri and Roaring Lion, the Champion Stakes in particular providing a thriller, and attracted a crowd of 14,266. The previous day at Listowel, where the highlight on the sixth day of the...