“HE looks like another one that Dad has found and turned into something not too bad,” declared David Christie junior after Au Fleuron (2/1 – 9/4) ran out the impressive winner of the novice rider’s open on his first start for the Derrylin stable of his father and namesake.

It was hard to disagree with the assessment after the Crillon-sired seven-year-old had turned the eight-runner contest into a procession from the exit of the back straight, as despite having failed to make any impression in two starts over fences on the track for Gordon Elliott, he looked an altogether different prospect here.