Eastern Blue Bird

The partnership with jockey Harry Sexton has been particularly unfruitful, with six rides together yielding nothing. Trainer P A Fahy's yard at Leighlinbridge, in County Carlow, has managed nine winners this season, but Eastern Blue Bird simply hasn't been the one to deliver for them. At this stage, with no wins from fifteen attempts and recent form showing mostly mid-field finishes, the horse appears to be running at a level where victories have become very difficult to come by. It's the kind of record that raises questions about whether there might be something mechanical or constitutional holding the horse back, though Eastern Blue Bird remains active and racing regularly—suggesting the the yard still see enough in the horse to keep it competing.