Rhys Flint, Philip Hobbs' extremely promising 5lb apprentice, is surely the find of the season.
Flint has been attached to Hobbs' powerful West Country stable for most of his young life, making waves as an amateur throughout 2008 in Point-to-Points.
An tempting offer to become trainer Tom George's conditional jockey prompted the young rider to consider turning professional, a decision he had originally decided to put off for a little longer. Whilst the offer to join the Gloucestershire yard was very tempting Rhys made the decision to remain with Hobbs in Somerset.
The Welsh jockey was a winner of the British Pony Racing Championships at 15, Novice Champion Point-to-Point rider at 16, and at 17 - in his first full season as a professional jockey, he won the Pertemps People Development Conditional Jockeys Training Series and the Racing Post Hands and Heels Series.
It goes without saying that Hobbs seems to have unearthed a real talent in the former pony rider who first came to prominence when riding a high-profile double at Cheltenham in December.
On that day, the 17-year-old, with the choirboy features and angelic hands, repaid the faith put in him by his boss as he cooly steered Fair Along to victory in the Pertemps Handicap Hurdle before doing likewise on Saunders Road.
Remarkably, Flint honed his riding technique on the former of the two, as his father, John, owned and trained Fair Along in South Wales before he was sold onto Alan Peterson.
Since then, Flint has become the most sought after conditional jockey in the business and looks like the ideal successor to Richard Johnson as Hobbs' stable jockey.
In the near-term, look out for the teenager as he continues his remarkable rise through the professional ranks.