Blindfold Games

Trained by Edward Bethell at the Middleham yard in North Yorkshire, Blindfold Games operates in a stable that has sent out 61 winners this season, so it is not short of quality guidance. The horse has raced mostly at Class 6 level, the lower rungs of British racing, and has managed one place from four attempts at that grade — respectable enough but hardly a sign of imminent improvement. Recent form shows a horse bouncing around the placings without quite making it stick: two fifth-place finishes sandwiched between an eighth, a second, a sixth, and a thirteenth just yesterday. That very recent thirteenth suggests Blindfold Games is still chasing form rather than finding it. For a three-year-old this far into its career without a win, the road ahead will depend on finding either a softer race or a sudden spark of improvement — both of which remain very much uncertain bets.