Correspondence

The recent form makes for interesting reading: in its last six races, Correspondence has finished 2nd, 1st, 3rd, 2nd, and placed again before that, with only two disappointing sixth-place finishes breaking the pattern. That is a horse in decent nick, running consistently and rewarding patience from trainer Tony Carroll's yard in Cropthorne, Worcestershire. Carroll's operation is clearly in fine health right now — 136 winners already this season is a serious number, the kind of output that marks out a trainer who keeps a busy, well-organised string.

One thing worth watching is where Correspondence tends to be aimed. The horse has run five times at Class 5 level — the sort of races that fill out a mid-week card — without winning any of them, a record of 0 from 5 that raises a quiet question mark. Yet it found a way to win at Windsor, suggesting that when the right race comes along, Correspondence can deliver. The key for Carroll will be finding more of those moments and perhaps stepping the horse into slightly different conditions to see whether that Windsor win was a one-off or the start of something.

Having raced just yesterday, Correspondence is clearly in an active spell, and a yard sending out winners at this rate tends to know when a horse is ready to run. This is one to keep an eye on over the coming weeks.