Mick's The Boy

What works in this horse's favour is the company it keeps. Mick's The Boy is trained by the father-and-son partnership of Michael and David Easterby at their yard in Sheriff Hutton, North Yorkshire — a team that clearly knows how to get horses winning. Fifty-five winners in a single season is a genuinely productive output, the kind of number that puts a yard firmly in the conversation as one of the more active operations in the north of England. When a stable is firing in winners at that rate, it suggests the horses in their care are being placed intelligently and prepared well. A young horse without a win yet is hardly a concern in that context — it simply means the right race hasn't come along yet.

Raced just yesterday, Mick's The Boy is very much a horse in the middle of its story rather than at the end of it. At two years old, with only three races under its belt, there is plenty of time and plenty of opportunity ahead.