The trainer ed Vaughan responsible for Magic J, a 950,000-dollar purchase, who showed plenty of promise when making a winning debut over six furlongs at Yarmouth in September. The Newmarket handler is looking forward to getting the Scat Daddy colt back into action on Friday. “I thought we’d go to Newcastle and see. He’s a horse we’re still learning about.

He hasn’t run for a long time, so you’d like to think he’ll improve for the run.”

“He is a horse I like, and this looks a good place to start.