PATIENCE is a virtue. Just ask the team at Oghill House Stud. It is home to four-time winner By The Edge (Shinko Forest) and her unraced nine-year-old daughter No Edge (Bertolini). The second foal from By The Edge was born some years after No Edge, and this is the three-year-old Astro Jakk, a son of Zoffany (Dansili). He had been sold as a foal for €42,000 and made his racecourse debut last weekend winning a six-furlong novice event at Southwell in the style of a horse who can go on to do better.

Bred by Paul Hyland and Christopher and James McHale, Astro Jakk’s dam was barren the year he was foaled to Zoffany and then visited Kodi Bear (Kodiac) and produced a colt last year. By The Edge is due to foal to Profitable (Invincible Spirit) this year and returns to him.