Age Of Baroque

The recent form makes for interesting reading: finishing 3rd, 3rd, 9th, 4th, 5th, and 2nd in its last six races. That's a horse that consistently finishes in the frame without quite getting over the line — and the 9th in that sequence is the one blip in an otherwise tidy run of efforts. It raced just yesterday, so it is very much in the thick of things right now.

Where Age Of Baroque has the clearest case for confidence is over distances between seven furlongs and a mile. In seven races at that range, it has won once — 14%, or roughly 1 in every 7, which is more than twice its overall win rate. For a horse that struggles to win full stop, finding a distance that suits it this clearly is genuinely useful information. Southwell, where that win came, is a fibresand all-weather track that suits horses with a certain stubborn, grinding style, and clearly something clicked there.

Jessica Macey trains Age Of Baroque from a yard in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and her team have been in decent form this season with 13 winners already on the board. Most of Age Of Baroque's races have come at Class 5 level — the bread-and-butter end of British racing — where it has won 1 from 9, an 11% win rate or roughly 1 in every 9 attempts at that level. That's modest, but it at least shows the horse is pitched at a realistic grade.

The honest summary is this: Age Of Baroque is a horse you back with your heart rather than your head, but a horse that's placed five times from 17 races and found the winner's enclosure at least once is no lost cause either. Watch it over seven furlongs to a mile — that's where it gives you the best reason to believe.