A final-fence faller at Loughanmore in the spring on his debut, Lone Rocket ran out one of the most impressive winners from the month of October on his reappearance at Portrush. This maiden was only first run in 2016 when it was won by Grade 1 victor Finian’s Oscar, whilst the 2017 renewal, in which the second, third and fourth are all subsequent track winners, producing Brace Yourself, who went on to finish placed in a Grade 2 bumper at the Dublin Racing Festival in that same debut season. This year’s race looked just as strong, with some expensive young horses coming to the fore, with the first four horses costing between €30,000 and €48,000 each. Lone Rocket was always positioned to the fore, and he made his move for home rounding the final bend and had the pace to kick-on before the second, before maintaining that all the way to the line, to defeat, Braeside, a horse defeated by a head two weeks earlier, by a comfortably four lengths. He is an exciting prospect.