Bessie Wallis

The numbers are tough: one win and two top-3 finishes from twelve races means she wins roughly one in every twelve outings. When she steps up to the tougher Class 4 races — the sort of competition where the best horses in her age group compete — she has won none from three attempts, suggesting those races might be stretching her. She was last on the track just a day ago, so she is clearly active and her trainer Michael Attwater, who runs a successful yard at Epsom with twenty-seven winners already this season, keeps sending her out. That points to genuine belief that the right race will suit her, even if the recent form chart shows a horse searching for another day like that October afternoon at Lingfield.