First winner from first runner for Profitable at Kempton

Profitable, who emerged at the head of the early betting for top first-season sire honours, made the perfect start with a winner from his first runner to hit the track at Kempton on Wednesday.

The top-class sprinter and Kildangan Stud resident, who is offered at €10,000 this year, has 130 juveniles to race from his maiden crop, with the George Boughey-trained Thunder Love evidently among his sharpest as the 15-8 favourite for the Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day EBF Fillies' Novice Stakes.

Bred by Mickley Stud and picked up for a mere £18,000 by Robson Aguiar as a yearling at Tattersalls Ireland, Thunder Love is now in the ownership of Amo Racing. She is now one of half a dozen winners out of the Mark Of Esteem mare Nantyglo, who won a Listed race at Goodwood for Michael Bell.

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Rossa Ryan did have to scrub his mount along a little turning for home in the five-furlong heat to prevent Hollie Doyle and front-runner Chandrika from getting away, and the pilot got a willing response as she passed her rival and came three and a quarter lengths clear.

"She was having a bit of a look, she was a bit timid but as soon as I gave her the office to go about it, she went about it very well," Ryan told Racing TV.

"The team at George's have done a fantastic job, all the signs were positive coming in, she was really going to set the standard of where we were going to be at as a benchmark with our horses and she's started off perfectly."

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