| 05 May
| The other debut runner with some prospects is Andrew Balding's
The Desert Saint. The trainer does get the odd debut winners but later
May has been the earliest to expect these. He provided the 20/1 upset when
his first 2yo debut this year (Foundation Room) won the Salisbury conditions
race yesterday. That just isn't usual and there needs to be some explanation
for that. That filly might be very useful but she cost 7,000gns at the
sales and looked a lightly built and ready type, at best, on TV pictures.
She presumably found a weak version of that Salisbury affair to win and
the pacemakers probably went too hard to set themselves up. April Pride
is presumably not the class of Hannon's recent winners of the race on the
evidence on display.
Whatever, Balding doesn't go in for lots of strong debuts like a David
Evans and after that debut win The Desert Saint will be at a shorter price
than he ought to be. With a record of 3 season winners from 12 juveniles
that started out in May in 2005-7 its 3/1 against that The Desert Saint
will be a winner this year, let alone in this race.
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