Guendolen

The concern since then is that nothing has clicked. She has not won in her last six races, finishing no better than fourth in any of them, and her recent form reads 7-6-7-6-4-4 — a sequence that tells the story of a horse finding places just out of reach rather than threatening at the front. She has placed three times in her career, so she is not entirely without merit, but consistency has been elusive.

At her preferred distance of a mile and three to a mile and four furlongs, she has won 1 from 8 races at around 12%, which is actually her best ground for results — it is just that even her best ground has not produced much lately. Most of her races have come at Class 5 level, which is among the more accessible tiers of racing, and she has yet to win at that level in nine attempts, which is a puzzling detail. Her one win came at a slightly different level, suggesting the Class 5 field is not quite as straightforward for her as it might appear on paper.

She is trained by Harry Eustace at Newmarket, a yard that has sent out 24 winners this season and clearly knows how to get horses to the track in good order. Jockey Kaiya Fraser has ridden her seven times without a win together, which is a run of results that neither rider nor trainer will be entirely happy with. Guendolen raced just one day ago, so she is very much an active runner — the question is whether this yard can find the right opportunity to bring out another performance like that Leicester day.