A very exciting youngster who finished a very smart second to the exciting Machismo the brother to Knappers Hill. That winner is trained by Gordon Elliott on an afternoon when his stable companion was winning a Grade 1 at Fairyhouse as this is a yard enjoying a run of form almost unprecedented in national hunt racing. For this fellow to break from the pack to challenge the Elliott trained winner and stay so close to him all the way to the line is an impressive effort. Furthermore he may well have been closer but for pecking on landing after the final fence having jumped it well. He is a brother to a winner in the six times winning Lofgren and from the family of the twenty times winner Batanaboo who won a Fighting Fifth among his successes.