FULL STEAM, who ran well behind Special Duty in last year's French 1000 Guineas when under the care of Andre Fabre, is the latest recruit to our La Grange team, having been bought for 160,000gns at last month's Tattersalls Sale by Tony Nerses, acting on behalf of Kuwaiti owners Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar, who enjoyed their finest hour when their colours were carried to victory by Authorized in the 2007 Derby.
Fillies with the pedigree of Full Steam don't grow on trees - the daughter of Oasis Dream is out of a full-sister to Zafonic - and while Ed accepts that it will be a brief relationship as Full Steam has been covered by Nayef, he is looking forward to the challenge of getting some valuable black type into the filly, who won at Chantilly as a two-year-old and ran well in Listed company last season.