Slug And Lettuce Value Lunch EBF Maiden Stakes

Half brother to winning sprinter Rebecca Rocks, and pedigree leans more towards the sprinting side of things, so may find this trip stretching him, especially on slow ground. Yard 3-33 first time up with 2-y-o's over the past 12 months and others preferred.

Slightly disconcerting to see the tongue tie applied on debut, but this one is a half brother to the yard's useful Group 3 winning Cunco, so bred to be decent. This looks an ideal start point and yard have an excellent strike rate first time up.

Made favourite to make a winning debut at Newbury but lacked the necessary gears, and this extra furlong and stiffer finish both likely to prove positives. Will have learnt plenty from that and looks one of the more likely contenders here.

Bred to be effective at around this sort of trip but yard invariably let their 2-y-o's find their own feet, as a record of 0-18 first time up over the past 12 months shows.

Nothing to wrote home about in his breeding and likely to need further than this, although yard did have a newcomer placed (from just 2 runners) first time up last season. Makes little appeal.

Nicely backed on debut at Yarmouth and duly ran a solid race to finish third to The Last Emperor, sticking to the task well and this extra furlong likely to suit. Likely to have different ground conditions to cope with here but still not discounted.

Has looked in need of further on both starts to date, so the extra furlong here won't go amiss, but his form doesn't match that of a few others and nurseries after today might be his best chance of scoring.