Conscientious is a 2-year-old still finding its feet in the racecourse. The horse has run twice without recording a win or a place finish, though recent efforts suggest it is learning as it goes — a fifth-place finish came just a day ago, improving on a ninth-place run before that. It is trained by
Archie Watson, whose Upper Lambourn yard in Berkshire has already sent out 62 winners this season, so the horse is in a stable with both the know-how and the momentum to develop young runners. For a horse this early in its career, these are the raw days of finding out what it can do.