Coyy

The record reads: one win and three places from ten races, which works out at winning roughly 1 in every 10 — not a figure to get excited about on its own. But context matters. Coyy has placed in three of those races, meaning nearly four in ten visits to the track have produced some reward. This is not a horse that has been going round the circuit doing nothing; it has been competitive, just waiting for things to click.

The most recent six runs tell an interesting story in themselves: the sequence reads 4-7-3-1-11-8 going backwards in time, so most recently a fourth and a seventh, before that a third, then the winning run at Windsor, and two quieter efforts before that. That fourth and seventh suggest the horse is finding its level after stepping up in class — Coyy has raced three times at Class 4, one of the better tiers, without winning, which hints that the yard may be testing the ceiling while being prepared to drop back and find easier opportunities when needed.

The jockey Charles Bishop has been aboard for seven of those ten races, winning once together — roughly 1 in every 7 rides as a partnership. That kind of continuity matters; it means Bishop knows this horse, knows how it travels, and knows when to ask the question. Trainer Eve Johnson Houghton, based at Blewbury in Oxfordshire, has had 42 winners this season alone, which is the output of a genuinely busy and successful yard. She mentioned recently that Coyy had picked up a minor muscle strain that cost it a run at Bath, but that it came through that fine — and that the Super Sprint at Sandown is a target on the horizon. That is a competitive, high-profile sprint race, and the fact the team are pointing Coyy there suggests real confidence that the Windsor win was not a one-off.

Raced just one day ago and still very much in action, Coyy is a horse whose story is very much being written.