Literary made its racecourse debut a day ago and finished outside the top three, which is the reality for most young horses stepping onto a track for the first time. As a two-year-old trained by
Charlie Clover at Newmarket, it has everything ahead of it — debut runs tell you almost nothing about a horse's future, and plenty of top performers stumbled at the starting gate before finding their feet. Clover's yard has already sent out 24 winners this season, so Literary has the benefit of being trained by someone who knows how to develop young talent.