High Approval

The recent form makes for difficult reading. Six races without a win, and the last six results read 4-6-6-3-6-6 — a brief flicker of something better in that third-place finish, surrounded by a run of efforts that have left the team at Hamad Al Jehani's Newmarket yard still waiting. Al Jehani has had a productive season with 18 winners already on the board, so the horses in this stable clearly know how to win. High Approval just hasn't joined that list yet.

At Class 5 level — the entry-level tier of British racing, where horses are competing at the most accessible grade — High Approval has gone 0 from 3. That is a concern rather than a crisis, but it does suggest the horse is finding it hard to dominate even at this level. Having raced just yesterday, there is clearly no shortage of enthusiasm from the yard to keep running it, and at three years old there is still time for things to click into place. But right now, High Approval is a horse that needs to find something extra to turn promise into a winner's enclosure moment.