Gilded Prize

A single third-place finish tells you almost nothing about a horse's ceiling, and that is actually part of what makes young horses like this worth watching. Trainer F-H Graffard, based in France, has already sent out 6 winners this season, so this is clearly a yard that knows how to get horses ready to perform. A third on debut is a perfectly respectable beginning, and plenty of good horses have taken a run or two to find their feet before going on to better things.

There is simply not enough evidence yet to say where Gilded Prize is headed, but with an active yard behind it and only one race in the book, the next run will tell us far more than the first one did.