JOHN Gosden trains Persuasive for the Thompson’s Cheveley Park Stud and this two-year-old daughter of Dark Angel made an eye-catching debut at Kempton last week, winning a division of the mile maiden in a good time. She went into many race watchers notebooks afterwards and she is a filly with a bright future.

What also caught my eye was the fact that she is out of a mare called Choose Me. Like Persuasive, Choose Me was bred at Owenstown Stud, but unlike the most recent winner, she was not sold. She had been catalogued for sale but never made it to the sale and she was put in training with Kevin Prendergast.