Give Me The Night

The recent run of form makes for difficult reading. In the last six races, the best result was a fourth place, sandwiched between a string of fifth, seventh, eighth, eighth, and tenth-place finishes. That sole fourth-place effort is the closest thing to a bright spot, but even then, Give Me The Night was well beaten. Racing predominantly at Class 5 — the lower end of the British racing pyramid, where horses are competing at the most accessible level — the horse has drawn a blank in all four attempts at that grade. When even the softer assignments have proved elusive, questions about where a win might come from are fair ones.

Trained by Mark Rimell at Leafield in Oxfordshire, Give Me The Night is part of a yard that has sent out six winners this season, so there is form and ability elsewhere in the stable. That matters, because it suggests the team know how to get a horse to the line first — it just has not happened yet with this particular horse. Rimell will be searching for the right conditions and the right race to unlock something, and the fact that Give Me The Night ran just one day ago shows the team are keeping the horse active and in the mix.

At this stage, Give Me The Night is a horse that tests a punter's patience. But racing is full of horses that took time to get going, and ten races at four years old is not an unusually long wait. The search for that elusive first win continues.