Bred from Space Blues, a fast and precocious horse who excelled over shorter distances at the top level, and out of a mare by Lawman, a sire known for producing horses with a bit of class and versatility, there's a decent pedigree behind this one. Whether those bloodlines translate into early ability on the track is the question everyone in the yard will be hoping gets answered today.
The trainer, Robson De Aguiar, operates out of Mullingar in County Westmeath and has been in decent form this season — 11 winners sent out is a solid return for the yard and suggests things are ticking over nicely. A trainer in that kind of form tends to be selective about where and when they run a first-time-out two-year-old, so the fact that 00laviniad has been declared today is at least a quiet vote of confidence. Beyond that, the horse simply has to go and show us something.