Hosanna Power

That one win came at Newbury in May 2024, now 26 months ago, and it remains the solitary highlight of a career built largely on near-misses. Since then, Hosanna Power has gone six races without troubling the winner's enclosure, and the recent form makes for uncomfortable reading: finishing 11th, 9th, pulled up, 13th, 13th, and 12th. These are not close calls. This is a horse that has struggled to make an impact at all in its most recent outings.

The distance range of a mile and three to a mile and four furlongs is where Hosanna Power has done its best work — at least in theory. It has won 1 from 13 races at those trips, which works out at around 8%, or roughly 1 in every 13. That is actually the strongest part of its record, which tells you something about how thin the overall profile is. At Class 4 level, the standard grade it competes at, it has managed 0 wins from 9 attempts.

Jockey David Allan has been the regular partner, riding Hosanna Power five times without a win between them. Trainer D Broad operates out of Summerhill in County Meath, and the yard has sent out just one winner so far this season — a quiet campaign by any measure. Hosanna Power raced just yesterday, so it is very much an active competitor, still being aimed at races and still giving the yard reasons, however faint, to keep believing. Whether that belief is well-founded is another question entirely.