Innichen

The form over the last six runs reads 6-6-3-19-3-1, which tells an interesting story. Innichen opened with a win just three months ago at Nottingham on 2 July, which would have felt like real progress. Since then it's had mixed results — a couple of third-place finishes and some lower placings, including a nineteenth last time out — but that most recent run was only a day ago, so this is a horse actively racing and still being given opportunities by trainer Jack Channon at West Ilsley. Channon's yard has been firing this season with 46 winners, so Innichen is in a stable that knows how to get horses to the winning post.

The horse's first win came at Pontefract in late April, and the fact that it has managed another victory since then at a different track suggests it's not a one-track wonder. For a two-year-old still learning its trade, winning roughly one in every five races is respectable form, and the high number of placed finishes — five from nine — means when it doesn't win, it's usually competitive enough to threaten. There's clearly more to come from this one as it matures.