Drish Samphire

What is perhaps most striking is the trajectory. That 5th-place finish earlier in the sequence looked like progress, but the runs either side of it drifted back toward the tail of the field, and the most recent effort — just yesterday — was a 6th. For context, placing means finishing in the first three, and Drish Samphire has not managed that once across eight attempts. That is a tough run of luck, or a horse still searching for the right opportunity.

Lawrence Mullaney trains out of Newark in Nottinghamshire, a yard that has sent out 2 winners so far this season. It is a modest operation, and finding the right race for a horse that has not yet opened its account will be a real priority. The hope, as always with a horse that keeps running without reward, is that one day the pieces fall into place — the right track, the right conditions, the right day. Drish Samphire raced just yesterday and is clearly being kept busy, which suggests the team believe there is something worth finding.