The well-bred Black Centaur hails from a winning family, as this son of Oscar is out of an unraced Presenting mare that has an enviable strike rate of producing track winners, including the six-time track winners Mr Mercurial, who has won twice around Cheltenham, and Black Narcissus, three-time winner Misty Mai, and dual track winner Black Scorpion. Each of that quartet also began their careers point-to-pointing with John Gleeson, however what stands Black Centaur out amongst that grouping, is that he is the only one of them to have won at the first time of asking. That debut success was achieved at Tralee in late May when he made good progress exiting out of the back straight to take the lead on the run to the second-last. Showing real guts and toughness, he soon began to assert and ultimately ran out a comfortable seven-length winner of a 13-runner maiden. A strong staying sort, it is hard to see him not following in his families footsteps and adding to their track winners.