Blake's Monarch

His most recent race came just yesterday, when he finished sixth, but before that he had run up a sequence of second, tenth, and sixth places capped by that winning effort at Redcar in mid-September. For a horse still learning the game at this level, staying competitive across different outings is a good sign of temperament and ability. Ivan Furtado, his trainer at Wiseton in South Yorkshire, has a yard that is clearly in form this season with 43 winners already to his name, so Blake's Monarch is in experienced hands. Whether the horse can build on that maiden win and start racking up more victories will depend on finding the right races and improving on his one-in-five win rate, but there is enough in those recent placings to suggest he has got the tools to do it.