Clasina

Her record of 1 win and 6 places from 19 races tells a familiar story: a horse with genuine ability that keeps finishing second or third but struggles to seal the deal. At the class of racing she typically competes in — the most accessible level on the British racing ladder — she has won just 1 of her 8 races, roughly 1 in every 8 attempts. That is not a terrible return, but for a horse her trainer openly believes has "a fair bit of ability," it feels like underachievement.

John Berry, who trains her at Newmarket and has sent out 13 winners already this season, is refreshingly honest about the puzzle Clasina presents. He has described her as "a bit of an enigma" — a horse who clearly has the tools but keeps finding ways not to win. Traffic problems in running, things just not clicking at the right moment. It is the sort of thing that makes her maddening to follow, but also oddly compelling. Her recent form — a win, then a third, then another third, then a fifth and an eighth — shows someone who briefly figured it out before the threads started slipping again.

Her regular jockey P J McDonald has ridden her six times without a win together, which is not necessarily a reflection on either of them — sometimes a partnership just needs that one big day to click. Clasina raced just yesterday, so she is very much in active training, and with Great Yarmouth showing she can win when everything aligns, there is no reason to write her off. She is a horse worth watching, not because the numbers demand it, but because her trainer still believes in her — and sometimes that is enough.