Good Work

The relationship with jockey Henry Brooke tells a similar story. The pair have partnered up ten times together without a win between them — not a damning indictment of either, but a reminder that Good Work tends to perform with admirable reliability without quite delivering the decisive moment. Recent form of 4-3-4-4-blank-3 suggests the horse is rarely far away from the action, which will be of some comfort to the team at Oldcastle, Cheshire, where Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero train the horse.

That yard is worth paying attention to. Forty-two winners sent out this season alone marks Greenall and Guerriero as a genuinely productive operation, so Good Work is not short of professional support. The horse has spent most of its career competing at Class 4 level — solid, competitive racing without quite reaching the top tier — winning once from 18 races at that level, a rate of around 1 in 18. That single Uttoxeter win remains the defining moment of a long career. The horse raced just yesterday, which means it is still very much active and still, presumably, searching for that second chapter.