Folsom Blues

From two races, Folsom Blues has won once and placed once — a record that reads 1 win and 2 places from 2 races, which means it has come home in the first three on every single outing so far. That is a perfect consistency record at the start of a career, and at 50% it wins one in every two races it has entered. The third place that followed the debut win suggests the level has already stepped up, but a podium finish at that stage is nothing to be embarrassed about.

What gives this horse a serious platform is the yard behind it. Joseph Patrick O'Brien trains out of Owning Hill in Co Kilkenny and has sent out 171 winners already this season — that is a training operation running at a remarkable pace, the kind of yard that consistently puts horses in the right races at the right time. A young horse with potential landing in those hands has every reason to improve quickly. Folsom Blues is only two years old, raced just days ago, and is still very much a work in progress — but the early signs point to a horse worth following through the summer.