Rodeo Blues

The recent form doesn't offer much encouragement. Finishing ninth and fourth in the last two completed races, with the dashes in between suggesting the horse didn't finish or was withdrawn on those occasions, paints a picture of a horse still finding its feet. Rodeo Blues raced just yesterday, so this is very much a story still being written.

What Rodeo Blues does have going for it is the training operation behind it. Joseph Patrick O'Brien, based at Owning Hill in County Kilkenny, has sent out 160 winners already this season — a remarkable output that tells you this is one of the sharpest yards in the game. When a trainer is winning at that volume, they tend to know exactly which horses are ready to run and when. The fact that Rodeo Blues keeps getting runs suggests the team sees something worth persevering with. Whether that patience pays off remains to be seen, but being in the care of an operation firing on all cylinders is as good a platform as any young horse could ask for.