BIG HOPES FOR LITTLE

NEWSBOY’S 1-2-3 1 LITTLE KIM 2 CHELSEA CLOISTERS 3 KURIOUS

LITTLE KIM is put up as a sporting alternative to American raider Chelsea Cloisters.

A daughter of firstseason sire – and Group 1-winning sprinter – Garswood, Ben Curtis’s mount made her racecourse bow in a five-furlong novice event at Carlisle 13 days ago.

Sent off at 17-2 in a field of nine, Little Kim ran green when hitting the front a furlong from home, but still ran out a comfortable length-and-a-half winner from Stage Play.

It scarcely needs saying that my selection needs to take a big step forward even to get involved in the finish of the Queen Mary.

But Little Kim has bags of untapped potential for in-form trainer Karl Burke (left), still on a high after Laurens’ French Oaks victory on Sunday. Chelsea Cloisters, who enjoyed an eight-length debut supremacy at Keeneland, is Shades Of feared, while Blue Kurious and also make the shortlist.