JUSTIN Casse went to France last spring scouting prospects for owner Gary Barber. He made similar trips for nearly a decade with some success, notably buying Keep Quiet and Galileo Gal for Barber and watched them go on to their own respective successes on the track and in the sales ring.

Casse found another top prospect in a War Front colt being offered by a former top National Hunt jockey turned consignor that showed well in a presale workout, however, he taken by the youngster’s lack of buzz around the Arqana sales grounds.