You Be Lucky Jean

Trained by Micky Hammond at his Middleham yard in North Yorkshire, You Be Lucky Jean joins a stable that is clearly in fine form. Hammond's team have sent out 25 winners already this season, which tells you this is not a yard guessing at how to get horses to the track in good shape. When a trainer is firing in winners at that rate, a debutant winning first time out feels less like a fluke and more like a horse that has been well prepared.

What happens next is the genuinely interesting question. A 100% record is a wonderful thing, but it only stays meaningful if the horse goes back out and tests it. Kelso was the beginning — how You Be Lucky Jean handles whatever comes next will tell us whether that debut was the first chapter of something worth following, or simply a very good day.