Magritte looks a star in the making

IT would be wrong to get carried away after a horse has just won a his first race, but you couldn’t but be impressed by Aidan O’Brien’s newcomer, Magritte, who took the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden unextended by five lengths at Tipperary yesterday.

This fellow is a full-brother to Epsom Derby runner-up The Great Gatsby and looks one of the nicest juveniles seen so far this season.

Michael Kinane soon had him tracking the trail-blazing Sharadi. Magritte eased ahead with a furlong and a half to run and was soon clear.