Cala Bonita

What makes her interesting is where she wins. On normal ground, over distances between a mile and a furlong and a mile and two furlongs, she is genuinely effective — winning 2 of her last 6 races in those conditions and at that trip. She is also a course specialist at Dundalk, where she has taken two wins from six races, the kind of record that suggests the track suits her. Her trainer, Matthew J Smith, is based at Kilmessan in County Meath and has already sent out eight winners this season, so there is clearly good form in the yard.

Her recent form tells a mixed story: a ninth-place finish, then a win, then a seventh, followed by two fourths and an eighth. It is the kind of pattern you see in a horse that runs regularly and finds the ground or distance right just often enough to make a day of it. She is not a class act heading for the top races, but she is exactly the kind of horse that can put together a winning sequence if the conditions play to her strengths.