Dc Cogent

The numbers become slightly more encouraging when you look at Class 5 company, where DC Cogent competes most often. In that grade, it has won 1 from 11 races—a 9% win rate that suggests the horse is capable of winning at its regular level, even if it hasn't managed to do so in well over a year. With Paul Mulrennan as its most regular rider, the combination has produced 1 win from 10 races together, also at 10%—fractionally better than its overall record, but hardly a partnership that has cracked the code.

Trained by Bryan Smart at Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire, DC Cogent continues to race despite that long absence from the winner's circle. Smart's yard has been in good form this season with 18 winners to date, so the horse remains part of an actively campaigning outfit. For a horse that races as often as DC Cogent does, that extended drought without a win is notable, but the recent inclusion of a couple of placed finishes suggests there may yet be another win in there somewhere—if the breaks fall right.