IVAN Allan, the master trainer, continues to send out some promising young horses that are catching the eye with cracking runs.
It was just that case with Team Valour in the sixth event at Sha Tin yesterday afternoon.
He was very unlucky in running, seeming to get caught up and lose his position when the field tightened going into the bottom bend.
It may well have cost him the race, as he then flew home down the centre of the track to be beaten by one and three quarters of a length by Derek Cruz's winner, Souper.
The experience of being in amongst horses racing round a bend will have done Team Valour a world of good, and he should be much more equipped next time out and can be followed.
A move to a mile would not do him any harm either, the way he finished really strongly over yesterday's 1,400 metres.