| 04 Apr
| Mark Wallace used to be an assistant to Mick Channon but
has shown a different approach to juvenile racing since he started in 2003.
Mr Channon likes to get them on the course and see how they go and develop
with racing if needs be and some will race a lot. Wallace is much more
selective & targeted with his runners and seems to know their abilities
before they run. His record with those chosen to make early debuts in April
in the last two years is 8 seasons winners from 9 who started that early.
The one failure was with a poor, plating class, horse not good enough to
win. Of the eight who were successful as many as 7 won at least twice for
him and the exception was claimed from him after the first win. That's
pretty impressive in these days when multiple wins are difficult to achieve.
In 2007 the 3 later winners who debuted in April all placed FTO including
Geoffdaw in this race. In 2006 he had a better group in quality terms and
two of the 5 winners won on debut with another two placing. The exception
was the later claimer winner who started out in a similar race to seller
laggard from 2007.
Putting all that together you would be disappointed if Hartshead Flyer
isn't a usable 2yo of some type even before you've seen him. His pedigree
is just about ok for 5f now on this surface but the 8,000gns price would
suggest a 65-75 official rater. So, a similar sort of debut to Geoffdaw
last year in what looks an easier race depending how good Red Cell &
Bahamian Babe prove to be.
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