Fouette

The trouble is that Fouette hasn't won since October 30 last year at Chelmsford — ten months without a victory. The last six races tell a bleak story: three sixth-place finishes, a seventh, a sixth again, and a tenth. These are the kind of results that test a horse's the yard' patience, and they suggest Fouette may have been aimed at races just a touch too sharp, or that something has slipped in the horse's form. What's encouraging is that Fouette raced just yesterday, which means James Horton's Newmarket yard is keeping the horse active and looking for another winning opportunity rather than letting it gather dust.

Fouette won its first race at Great Yarmouth in July 2024 and found the winner's circle again at Chelmsford last autumn. Both victories came in the right sort of company. The question now is whether the horse can rediscover that form and get back into the winner's column. At 4 years old, there is still time, and with a trainer sending out 20 winners this season, Horton is clearly a handler who knows how to get results. Whether Fouette's next race proves to be the one that breaks the drought will tell us whether this is temporary dip or something more worrying.