Mick Channon still believes there is improvement to come from Music Show after her fine third in the Irish 1000 Guineas on Sunday.
Having won the Nell Gwyn in April, the Noverre filly was then drawn on the wrong side in the English Guineas before her run behind Bethrah, in which she was beaten only a head and a neck. Channon continues to knock on the door in the big races but his enthusiasm is not on the wane.
Channon told his website, www.mickchannon.tv: "To be brutally honest, I can handle getting beaten. Music Show ran her race and had every chance, but was beaten half a length by a better filly on the day."
He added: "I can sleep well at night, safe in the knowledge that we've produced a competitor in a proper Group One. Sport is all about staking a claim and testing yourself against the rest.
"She's also proved that she'd have been in the mix at Newmarket but for the mockery of a draw, having turned the form around.
"She's still a bit hairy and has improvement in her and although we've had our colours lowered, they'll be raised again. If you packed up every time you get beaten, you'd never bother turning up.
"Lahaleeb won a nursery off a mark of 72 and look what she turned into. Our horses develop, it's a fact and we're all in this together.
"Defeat is disappointing, but in the long term, it's all a part of the game."
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