Je Suis Celebre

The recent form figures tell an interesting story. That second place came in the fifth-most-recent run, suggesting a moment of promise, but the races either side of it produced a fourth and a fifth, and the three most recent efforts have all been eighth or worse. That kind of tail-off after a near-miss is worth noting — it can mean a horse found its level, or simply that it met stronger fields. Either way, Je Suis Celebre has raced just once in the last two days, so clearly the team is not short of confidence in running it regularly.

The trainer is Stephen Thorne, based in Rush, County Dublin, who has sent out 24 winners already this season — a solid tally that shows this is a yard capable of getting horses to win races. That makes the absence of a win for Je Suis Celebre slightly harder to explain away, though it is worth remembering that plenty of horses find their moment eventually, and Thorne clearly knows how to place a horse to its best advantage.