First winner from first runner for Profitable at Kempton
Thunder Love shows good speed for the George Boughey stable
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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