Cheeky Chesca

What works in her favour is who has her in training. Tim Easterby's yard at Great Habton in North Yorkshire is one of the busiest and most productive operations in the north of England, and this season alone the team has sent out 126 winners. That is not a yard that sends horses out to make up the numbers. Getting a two-year-old to the track three times in quick succession — she raced just yesterday — suggests the team see something worth persisting with, and Easterby has a well-earned reputation for knowing how to place a young horse where it can thrive.

The second place is the number to hold onto here. It means she has already shown she can mix it with her rivals and put in a performance under pressure. At two, with a powerful yard behind her and races still to come this season, Cheeky Chesca is very much a horse to keep an eye on rather than write off.