'That's what you do it for' - Craig Lidster lauds another juvenile winner

Wednesday: Beverley

Havana By The Sea proved that last month’s 80-1 fifth in the £250,000 sales race at York’s Ebor meeting was no fluke, as the two-year-old made it third time lucky for trainer Craig Lidster.

Despite dropping back in trip and tackling soft ground for the first time, the daughter of Havana Grey justified 5-4 favouritism in the 5f maiden under Paul Hanagan to provide Lidster with the seventh winner of his first full year with a licence.

“We probably ran her on ground that’s not ideal so for her to do what she’s gone and done – hands and heels until the last half-furlong – is encouraging going forward,” said the winning trainer.

Lidster, who worked under the likes of Brian Ellison and Richard Fahey before taking out a licence of his own last November, built up a reputation for breaking and pre-training young horses and also had a 40-1 juvenile winner at Chester in July in Dickieburd.

“That’s what you do it for,” he said. “You want those two-year-old winners for the owner-breeder scenario, trying to get those sort of owners into the yard. I love juveniles. They’ve always been a forte of mine so it’s nice to actually work with them and see this outcome.”

Lidster’s other runner Caesars Pearl failed to beat a rival in the 5f fillies’ novice won by the James Ferguson-trained Impeachment, who ensured that Sunday’s Group 1-winning rider Jason Hart came away with a winner for the fourth day in a row.

Victorious Vetiver

Andrew Balding’s subsequent Listed winner Chateau got off the mark at Beverley in May and another potentially smart juvenile got on the board for the Kingsclere trainer in the 7½f fillies' novice.

PJ McDonald helped the Cheveley Park-owned Vetiver go one better than on her Chepstow debut last month, taking Balding’s record to 2-3 at the East Yorkshire venue this season.

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