Clash Of Hearts

The recent form tells the story of a young horse still finding its feet. A third-place finish, another third, a first win, an eighth-place flop, then a fifth and a sixth most recently — this is the pattern of a horse that hasn't yet worked out what it's supposed to be doing. At two years old, that's not unusual. Clash Of Hearts is trained by Adrian Keatley at Ryedale in North Yorkshire, a yard that has been in good form this season with 43 winners already. The trainer clearly sees enough in this one to keep running it, and a horse that won at Pontefract once can win there again or elsewhere, but it will need to show more consistency. For now, Clash Of Hearts is a work in progress — the kind of horse that might click at any moment or might just be a solid mid-level performer.