It's Good To Talk

Recent form tells a mixed story. The most recent outing produced a second-place finish, a sign that the horse is competitive on its day, but the outings before that yielded nothing to celebrate. Over the last five races, it has managed only one other placing — a third somewhere in that stretch — alongside two blanks. For a horse at this stage of its career, the absence of a single win is becoming harder to ignore, even if placing regularly keeps it in the mix.

It's Good To Talk races for trainer Emmet Mullins at Bagenalstown in County Carlow, a yard that has sent out 31 winners already this season. That kind of firepower suggests Mullins knows how to get horses ready to win, so the question hanging over this five-year-old is whether it simply lacks the finishing touch at the level it is running at, or whether a change of circumstances might unlock something better. Time will tell whether the next run finally brings the breakthrough.