LEOPARDSTOWN’S October meetings can throw up decent backend juveniles and, since 2020 alone, subsequent Group 1 winners like Bolshoi Ballet, Poetic Flare and Duke De Sessa have won on these cards along with numerous other lower-level stakes winners, and that is without getting into the weeds of those that were beaten on the day.

Last Saturday’s juvenile-only card was an interesting one to assess, due to there being a number of strongly-run races along with a possible track bias, where the ground on the outside looked favoured. The winner that went against both of those patterns was Twain, who made all, while racing hard around the inner from stall three.