Forever And A Day

The recent record makes for sobering reading. Of the last six races, the best efforts have been a second and a third, sandwiched around four finishes well down the field. That pattern — flashes of promise followed by disappointments — is the kind of form that keeps the yard hopeful but rarely leads anywhere. At seven, time is no longer on this horse's side.

Forever And A Day runs out of Peter Maher's yard in Donore, Co Kildare, a small operation that has sent out just one winner so far this season. The horse raced as recently as yesterday, so it is clearly an active campaign, but with no wins on the board from seven attempts, the question of whether that first victory ever arrives is a genuinely open one.