Camino Vino

That debut win came at Dundalk, an all-weather track in County Louth that races year-round under floodlights, and it arrives with the considerable weight of Gavin Cromwell's name behind it. Cromwell trains out of Navan in County Meath and has sent out 94 winners this season alone — that is not a yard that makes mistakes about when a horse is ready to run. The fact that Camino Vino was sent to the track suggests Cromwell saw something at home worth backing up in public, and the horse duly delivered.

Now, roughly three months on from that debut, Camino Vino is returning from a break. That gap is worth paying attention to — a horse that wins on its first start is often given time to mature and strengthen before being asked to do it again. The question when it does reappear is whether that debut was a one-off piece of beginner's luck or the opening chapter of something more interesting. Given the team behind it, the smart money is on the latter.