Havana's Dream

The finishing positions from its last six races read 11, 8, 9, 5, 7, 7. The fifth-place finish is the closest it has come to doing something noteworthy, and even that was nowhere near the prize money. Most of its racing has come at Class 6, the lowest tier of British racing, where the competition is specifically designed to give horses like this a fighting chance. Seven races at that level, not a single win.

Ronald Harris trains the horse from his yard in Earlswood, Monmouthshire, and it is not as though the stable is without form — they have sent out five winners already this season. Havana's Dream just has not been one of them. Whether that changes soon is a difficult case to argue based on what we have seen so far. Still active and still turning up, which counts for something, but this is a horse that has yet to give its supporters a single moment to cheer about.