Goin'

Recent form shows consistency of a sort: three, three, eight, five, five, three in the last six outings. Third place finishes bookend that sequence, with some middling results in between. The horse is clearly competitive enough to place occasionally, but converting those near-misses into wins has proven elusive. A. J. Martin's yard at Summerhill has sent out 13 winners this season, so there is proven expertise there, yet Goin' remains one of those horses that gives its the yard plenty of encouragement without delivering the breakthrough. At this stage of its career, at six years old with no wins to its name, the window for turning things around is narrowing — but the fact that it is still racing and still occasionally finishing in the places suggests the team has not given up on it yet.