One of the country’s top young jockeys, Darragh O’Keeffe from Doneraile, was among those honoured at the annual Horse Racing Awards on Tuesday evening, winning the Emerging Talent Award.
Standing out amongst several hugely promising young National Hunt jockeys, Darragh landed his 60th success and rode out his claim when winning the Cork National on the Michael Hourigan-trained The Gatechecker at Cork at the beginning of last month.
Darragh rode his first winner only 16 months previously.
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