“Another youngster who made a big impression on debut earlier in the week was
Into The Sky who could hardly have won any more impressively or easily in a maiden at Newbury, with his winning distance over the second-placed
Dark Shore, a horse who had already run to a Timeform rating of 82, ending up being returned as seven and a half lengths.
Wide-margin wins in two-year-old races at Newbury aren’t unusual – there have been fourteen since 2015 when the winner won by further than five lengths – but not at odds of 80/1 (twelve of the other thirteen started at 5/2 or shorter) or trained by Jim Boyle who had only trained a handful of juvenile winners previously, never had one rated by Timeform higher than 85 and never had one win first time out either.
On the face of it, Into The Sky, who posted a 98 timefigure, very high for one first time out, is a very promising youngster but all the contributory factors just mentioned together with the fact that he has no forthcoming big-race entries and the straight six and a half furlongs he won over is a rarely-used or familiar distance and I’d probably encourage a degree of caution when assessing him going forwards.
Hopefully he’ll not turn out to be a flash in the pan like another two-year-old who created a very good impression while running a very high timefigure (109) first time out back in 2023 (Asadna, if you’ve forgotten his name) but if nothing else it was further evidence that his sire Starman is rapidly becoming a sire of note.” Graeme North, Sporting Life
