Ellistrin Bay

That one place came in a third-place finish, which represents Ellistrin Bay's best result and suggests there is at least some ability in there. The most recent outing was just yesterday, so this is a horse actively campaigning right now. Most of its racing has come at Class 4 level — the bread-and-butter tier of British racing, a long way from the glamour of the top races — and across five runs at that level it has not managed a single victory.

The horse is trained by Donald Whillans, operating out of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. The yard has sent out nine winners this season, which tells you Whillans knows how to get a horse to the front. That makes Ellistrin Bay something of an outlier in the string rather than a reflection of the stable's overall form. Whether there is a race out there that finally unlocks this horse remains to be seen, but with an active campaign underway, the search is clearly still on.