Fahidi

What is worth noting is who is in Fahidi's corner. Andrew Balding's yard at Kingsclere in Hampshire is one of the most productive operations in Britain right now, having sent out 204 winners already this season — that is a genuinely remarkable number, reflecting a team that knows how to place and prepare horses to win. When a yard is firing at that level, even a horse with a blank win record is worth watching, because the team clearly understands what it takes to find the right opportunity. Fahidi raced just yesterday, so the horse is very much in the thick of an active campaign, and with more experience likely to follow, the picture could look quite different in a few weeks' time.