He's Gorgeous

What keeps He's Gorgeous interesting is the recent form. The last six races show a horse that is very much in the mix — two fifth-place finishes, a runner-up spot, and a fourth suggest a horse that turns up, competes, and just cannot quite get its nose in front. That second place in particular is the kind of result that keeps a trainer sending a horse out: close enough to suggest it is not far off, frustrating enough to suggest it has not quite found its moment yet. With a race recorded just one day ago, this is clearly a horse still being campaigned actively.

P A Fahy, operating out of Leighlinbridge in County Carlow, trains He's Gorgeous, and the yard has been in decent form this season with 9 winners on the board. A trainer with winners in the bank tends to know which horses are worth persisting with and which are not — the fact that He's Gorgeous keeps getting entries suggests Fahy believes there is another day out there for this horse. Whether Clonmel turns out to be the venue again remains to be seen, but for a horse who has spent most of its career finishing just outside the prizes, one more win is hardly beyond imagination.