Get Up Everybody

Midgley, who trains from Westow in North Yorkshire and has sent out 39 winners this season, sees raw potential rather than a lost cause. He describes Get Up Everybody as a big, slow-maturing horse who will improve with time and experience. The horse has a good temperament, which counts for something. The trainer's assessment—that Get Up Everybody bumped into a really well-handicapped horse when second at Thirsk—suggests the recent form is honest rather than fading. At Class 5 level, however, he has not yet broken through, managing just 0 wins from 7 races in that grade.

The partnership with jockey David Nolan, his most frequent partner, has yet to produce a winner from 9 rides together, though that reflects circumstance as much as anything else. Get Up Everybody races actively and remains a work in progress. If Midgley's faith in the horse's maturation is justified, there could be more winners ahead—but for now, this is a horse in the business of running well without quite sealing the deal.