Atomic City

The trainer behind it is Joseph Patrick O'Brien, operating out of Owning Hill in County Kilkenny. O'Brien's yard has sent out 171 winners already this season, which is a remarkable number — it speaks to an operation running at serious scale and serious quality. When a horse comes out of a yard producing winners at that rate, it tends to be well prepared and well placed in its races. Atomic City is in good hands.

The most recent form reads 15-1-3, which means in its last three runs the horse finished fifteenth, first, and third. That fifteenth-place finish stands out — it's a sharp contrast to the placed efforts around it and suggests there may have been a race where conditions or competition simply didn't suit. But the win and the third either side of it show the talent is real. Raced just one day ago and still active, Atomic City is very much a horse in the middle of its story, not at the end of it. At three years old, with a tidy record and a powerful yard behind it, there's every reason to think the most interesting chapters are still to come.