Win rate and top-3 rate will show once this horse has raced.
Skelton's yard is firing this season, which suggests The Gift Shop has been given time to develop and is ready to run. A debut at five is not unusual — some horses need longer to mature, either physically or temperamentally — and the fact that a trainer of Skelton's calibre has chosen this moment to send him out suggests he sees something worth backing. What happens in that first race will tell us whether The Gift Shop has been worth the wait.