Karrygrant

Raced by J. P. Murtagh's yard at Coolaghknock Glebe in County Kildare, Karrygrant operates in a training operation that knows how to find winners — the yard has already sent out 53 winners this season. That kind of win rate suggests the infrastructure and eye for detail are there, which makes the horse's blank record all the more intriguing. The consistency of near-misses in recent weeks, particularly those three second-place finishes tucked inside the last half-dozen runs, hints that Karrygrant is racing at a level where it is competitive but not quite dominant. Still active and having raced just a day ago, the horse remains in work and clearly a horse the yard believes in enough to keep sending to the track. At three years old, there is still time for something to click, though finding that breakthrough win is becoming the pressing question.