Ain't Nobody

Kevin Ryan's yard at Hambleton has been firing this season, with 45 winners already, but Ain't Nobody remains frustratingly inconsistent. Most of its racing comes in top-class company, where it has won just 1 race from 10 attempts. The 4-year-old's recent form is particularly troubling: it has not won in its last six races, finishing seventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, ninth, fourteenth, and twenty-first. Those results suggest the horse is struggling to find its feet against elite opposition. Tom Eaves has been the regular pilot, winning one race from eight rides together, mirroring the horse's overall win rate.

With just 4 placed finishes from 17 races alongside its 2 wins, Ain't Nobody looks like a horse that showed real promise early in its career but has since run into a wall. The fact that it was last in the paddock just a day ago means it is still chasing that next win. Whether it can recapture the form that got it to a Class 1 victory at Ascot remains the question.