Efsixteen

What stands out is that sole win at Newmarket, coming on 3 May. Newmarket is the epicentre of British racing, and winning there at such a young age marks a horse out as something with potential. The fact that it has now gone four months without another victory suggests the step up in difficulty may be catching up with it, or that the horse simply needs more time to settle into racing. Trained by George Scott—a Newmarket-based handler who has sent out 52 winners this season—Efsixteen is in a yard that knows how to bring young horses along. Scott's experience counts for something here. Whether Efsixteen can get back to the winner's enclosure and build on that May success will tell us whether that first win was a sign of things to come, or a flash in the pan.