Despite his inexperience, businessman Joe Fanning managed to make a winning debut in the Racing Post Yearling Bonus Convivial Maiden at York. If you ask me, Mark Johnston’s son of Acclamation looked set to run out a wide margin winner on reaching the furlong marker.

Moreover, despite the fact that he ended up hanging violently across the track later on, he still managed to reach home a length and a quarter ahead of the favorite, Noble Greek. Johnston stated that they had the horse for only a few months, and it was due to the fact that he was in Newmarket that he hadn’t run before this race.

He also mentioned that it was the ex-jockey Bobby Elliot who rode the horse when he had come to the yard one day to ride out, who stated that the horse had lots of speed and had the capacity of winning races. So Johnston says that what he had said was indeed true and right.

Martin Smith, the assistant to the runner-up’s trainer John Best, also mentioned that though his horse had run a great race, he was beaten by a good horse that was fancied before the race. All of this was confirmed by the result of course.