Diamond Ali

The horse typically races in lower-level competition, where it has yet to win in four attempts, suggesting that top-class success will be hard to come by. In the saddle, the partnership with jockey Dylan Hogan has not yet clicked: the pair have run seven times together without a victory. Those struggles in recent weeks, combined with the low win rate overall, point to a horse still finding its feet at three years old. The Newmarket-based yard of Julia and Shelley Birkett, however, is in good form this season with fifteen winners to their name, so Diamond Ali will have the benefit of experienced handlers keen to get the best out of a horse that showed enough promise back at Windsor to suggest better days may lie ahead.