WHAT a bargain Method is proving to be. Unbeaten now in two starts, and earning quotes already for the 2021 classics, the colt garnered blacktype at the weekend with his victory for trainer Martyn Meade in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes over six furlongs at Newbury.

Bred by Michael Phelan at Pipe View Stud, Method is from the first crop of Tally-Ho Stud’s Mehmas, and one of nine winners for that son of Acclamation (Royal Applause) at the time of writing. He can now lay claim to be the stallion’s first stakes winner. Method was sold as a foal for €16,000 and just about got his investors out when he resold for £20,000 to Dermot Farrington as a yearling. He was raised between sales at the Player family’s Whatton Manor Stud.