Bridget's View

Her overall record reads two wins and three places from 11 races — that's roughly 1 in every 5 or 6 races converted into a win, with a decent chunk of placed efforts alongside. She does her best work over a mile and a bit, winning 1 from 3 races at that distance, or one in three — a noticeably better hit rate than her overall figures. That kind of distance preference matters because it tells you where the team will be aiming her, and it narrows down the races where she's genuinely dangerous.

Williams has been open about where he sees her going. She's a big, physical horse who he feels has grown into herself since last year, and he thinks she could be progressive — in other words, still improving — in the kind of mid-level races she typically enters. She doesn't want the ground too fast, which is worth noting for punters watching the forecast. The recent form figures of 6-7-7-8 don't make pretty reading, and it's now seven months since her last win at Southwell in December, so there's a question mark over whether she can rediscover that winning feeling. But Williams clearly isn't concerned — his assessment was of a horse still finding her feet rather than one going backwards.

At four, she's young enough that improvement is entirely believable. The key will be finding the right conditions — a bit of ease in the ground, a trip around a mile and a quarter, and a race at the right level — and if those pieces come together, the form she showed at Kempton suggests she's capable of making her presence felt again.