Ey Up He's A Star

Look at those last six runs in reverse order and you see a horse transformed. He was finishing seventh and ninth as recently as a few months ago, but he has since put together a win and two third-place finishes. That is not a horse fading into the background — that is one finding its feet. He raced just yesterday, so he is bang in form and being kept busy by the yard in Norton, North Yorkshire, which is run by Tony Coyle and Kaine Wood. With 12 winners already on the board this season, that is a team that knows how to place a horse to give it a chance.

David Nolan has been in the saddle for 11 of his 13 races, a partnership that speaks to genuine confidence from the team. Nolan has one win from those 11 rides together — just under 1 in every 10 — which sounds modest, but the trend matters more than the number here. The horse is clearly running better now than he was earlier in his career, and that win came with Nolan aboard at Newcastle.

His best distance is between seven furlongs and a mile, where he has won 1 from 8 races — around 1 in every 8 attempts at those trips. That 12% conversion at his preferred distance is meaningfully better than his overall record, which suggests trip matters for this horse. Get the conditions right and he is more competitive than his overall numbers imply. He also tends to run at Class 6 level, the entry-level tier of British racing, where he has won 1 from 5 — a 20% record, or 1 in every 5 races at that grade. That is a solid return and suggests he is capable of winning at his natural level when everything lines up.

He is not a star in the making, but he is a consistent, improving sort who is well placed by a yard in good form. At Class 6 over seven furlongs to a mile, he is worth keeping an eye on.