Hatteen

That breakthrough win came at Doncaster on 9 July, and it remains Hatteen's only success. Since then, the horse has been knocking on the door without quite getting back to the winner's circle. The last six races show a horse improving gradually: a recent seventh place aside, it has finished second or third three times in that run, and second twice. The pattern suggests a horse that belongs in races at its preferred distance and is steadily learning its trade. With Balding's yard in outstanding form this season — 202 winners so far — Hatteen is in experienced hands. The horse raced just yesterday, which means it is actively campaigned and clearly still progressing. For a three-year-old still searching for its second win, finding its ideal distance and course is often the key to a breakthrough, and the evidence so far points to the one-mile-three-to-one-mile-four range as exactly where that might happen.