Get Up Everybody

His regular partner is jockey David Nolan, who has ridden him nine times without a win — a sequence that might look discouraging, but context helps. Trainer Paul Midgley, whose yard in Westow, North Yorkshire has sent out 39 winners already this season, is clearly a man who knows how to get horses to win races. His take on Get Up Everybody is telling: after a second-place finish at Thirsk last week, Midgley described him as a big, raw, slow-maturing horse who simply bumped into a well-placed rival on the day. He's genuinely confident the horse has a better mark in him and will improve with time.

That's not the kind of thing trainers say just to be polite. A horse described as slow-maturing at four is essentially still growing into itself — physically and mentally. The fact that Midgley highlights his attitude as a real strength suggests the horse isn't a difficult ride or a moody character, just one that hasn't fully clicked yet. Most of his racing has come at Class 5 level, the bread-and-butter end of British racing, where he's run seven times without winning. But if the trainer is right and this horse is better than his current ranking suggests, that's precisely the kind of gap — between where a horse is rated and where it actually belongs — that turns a placed horse into a winner. Get Up Everybody raced just yesterday, so the story is very much still being written.