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The overall career record — 3 wins and 5 places from 16 races, with a 19% win rate — tells you this is a horse that earns its keep at the bread-and-butter end of the sport, mostly competing in Class 5 races, which are the kind of everyday contests that form the backbone of British racing. It has won 2 of its 9 races at that level, roughly 1 in every 4 or 5, which is a healthy return. On normal ground conditions, the numbers sharpen further: 3 wins from 10 races on a standard surface, which is 30% — nearly 1 in 3.

Patrick Morris trains out of Prescott in Merseyside, and his yard has sent out 18 winners this season, so this is a stable in decent form. The regular partnership with jockey Stevie Donohoe is an interesting puzzle, though — they have yet to win together in five attempts, despite the horse clearly being capable of winning. That kind of statistic doesn't mean the partnership is bad, but it does make you wonder whether the right combination of jockey, track, and conditions simply hasn't clicked at the same moment.

Recent form shows a win, then a couple of blank runs, then a fifth and most recently a fifteenth — so the horse isn't in the kind of form it showed when landing that Lingfield victory back in February. Raced just yesterday and still active, it's a horse whose the yard will almost certainly be looking at the Lingfield entries very carefully. When the right race comes up on that track, in normal conditions, history says it's worth watching.