Flying Frontier

The overall numbers tell a solid story. Across 15 races, Flying Frontier has won 4 and placed 7 times — a win rate of around 27%, meaning roughly 1 in every 4 races ends in victory. For a horse competing mainly at Class 2 level — one of the better tiers of racing in Britain — that's genuinely respectable. Most horses at that level are good. Beating them regularly takes something extra. On normal ground, the figures sharpen considerably: 3 wins from just 6 races, a remarkable 50% win rate, which tells you this six-year-old is a very different proposition when conditions suit.

Recent form had a dip — finishes of ninth, ninth, and eighth across the middle part of last season — but those numbers tell only part of the story. A horse that bounces back to win a Class 2 at Sandown, as Flying Frontier did just days ago, clearly hasn't lost its ability. It may simply have needed the right track and the right ground to show it again.

Tate is already thinking ahead. There's a race at Yarmouth worth decent prize money on the radar, and then — perhaps most interestingly — a return to Sandown in August for another race over a mile and two furlongs. That would be a third crack at a track where Flying Frontier already has two wins. Tate has also floated the idea of stepping up in distance slightly. For a horse that already has four wins from 15 races (27%, or roughly 1 in 4) and a yard firing on all cylinders — 51 winners already this season — there's every reason to think the best of this horse might not be behind it just yet.