Lord Gayle's other winning progeny included Carroll House, Blue Wind, Gay Lemur (Jockey Club Stakes) and the leading hurdler Pollardstown.
Her dam Balidaress was an outstanding broodmare whose other descendants have included Park Appeal, Russian Rhythm and Cape Cross.
[2] During her racing career she competed in the blue and silver colours of the Gloucestershire-based Catherine Corbett[4] and was trained at Lambourn in Berkshire by Barry Hills.
She was beaten two and a half lengths into second place by the Henry Cecil-trained Prickle (ridden by Piggott), with the Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Chapel Cottage in third and Pebbles in fourth.
Eighteen days later, she ended her season in the Cheveley Park Stakes (then the only British Group One race restricted to two-year-old fillies) over six furlongs at Newmarket and started at odds of 12/1 in a twelve-runner field.
Prickle started favourite ahead of Gala Event, the French challenger Island Smile and the previously unbeaten Jameelapi, whilst the other contenders included Rocket Alert and Pebbles.
On her racecourse debut she contested the classic 1000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile at Newmarket and finished third of the fifteen runners behind Pebbles and Meis-El-Reem.
[6] In the International Classification for 1983, Desirable was given a rating of 75, making her the seventh-best two-year-old filly in Europe behind Almeira, Shoot Clear, Masarika, Satinette, Treizieme and Eastern Dawn.