Granny B

The numbers tell a bleak story. At Class 5 level — races for horses well below the elite — Granny B has had 18 chances and won none of them. The horse's best chance comes at distances between five and six-and-a-half furlongs, where it has won 1 of 12 races, a win rate of roughly 8 percent. That's where the Pontefract victory came, and that's where small glimmers of hope remain. With jockey Charlie Deutsch, however, there is nothing: seven races together, zero wins. At six years old and still racing, Granny B keeps turning up, keeps trying, and keeps coming home without glory. It is the kind of record that belongs to a horse whose the yard see something worth persisting with, even if that something has long since stopped translating into winners' enclosures.