Cyrano De Bergerac

That record — one win and two runner-up finishes from three races — tells a clean, simple story. Win 1 in 3, place in all 3. For context, most racehorses are delighted to win 1 in every 10 races across a career. Doing it in a third of your outings this early is the kind of form that makes people pay attention.

The stable behind this horse makes that form even more credible. John & Thady Gosden are one of the most respected training partnerships in British racing, and their yard has already sent out 140 winners this season alone. That is a staggering number — it means horses from this stable are winning races almost every single day. When a team producing results at that rate decide a horse is ready to run, it tends to mean something.

Cyrano De Bergerac is only just getting started. Three races is a tiny sample, but the pattern so far — competitive every time, winning when the moment came — is exactly what you hope to see from a young horse with potential. The name is a theatrical one, and if the early evidence is anything to go by, the performances to come might well live up to it.