Calamint

That one career win came at Naas in April 2024, now 23 months ago, which is a long time to be living off a single highlight. What's encouraging, though, is where Calamint tends to run best: at distances between a mile and a mile and two furlongs, it has won 1 from 5 races — a 20% win rate, or 1 in every 5 runs at that trip. In the context of a career that otherwise struggles to hit 6% overall, that's a meaningful difference. It suggests a horse that has a preferred range, and when the yard — when the team — pitch it right, it becomes a genuine contender rather than a also-ran.

Recent form reads 2-6-7-4-19-3 going from most recent backwards, and while a nineteenth-place finish sits awkwardly in the middle of that sequence, the broader picture is of a horse that has been running into the frame with reasonable regularity. Trained by Adrian Murray out of Rathowen in County Westmeath, Calamint is part of a yard that has sent out 26 winners this season — so this is not a small operation struggling along. Murray clearly knows how to get horses winning. The question with Calamint is whether, at six years old and with a second win now 23 months overdue, there's still a race out there waiting to be claimed. Given it raced just one day ago and remains active, the team clearly hasn't given up on finding it.