Got The Booty

The recent form tells an interesting story. A finishing position of 8 in the most distant of those six runs looks like an outlier, because either side of it the horse has posted a string of seconds and thirds. Back-to-back runner-up finishes suggest a horse that races competitively and travels well enough in a race — it just has not found that extra gear at the crucial moment. The most recent run, just yesterday, produced a ninth-place finish, so the team will be keen to understand whether that was a blip or something to take more seriously.

Tom Ward trains the yard at Upper Lambourn in Berkshire, one of British racing's most recognisable training bases, and his string has sent out 14 winners already this season — a solid return that suggests the horses in his care are in decent shape. For Got The Booty, the job now is straightforward: turn one of those places into a win.