Lady Lauren

Ed de Giles, her trainer at the Ledbury yard in Herefordshire, is working with limited resources compared to the bigger operations. The yard has managed eight winners this season, a respectable tally for an outfit of her size. Lady Lauren typically races at Class 6 level, where she has never broken through in four attempts, which suggests she may be running against horses slightly beyond her current ability. The gap between competitive and winning at any level can be surprisingly small — a fraction of a second, a horse that doesn't have quite the same turn of foot — and for a young animal still developing, that gap is especially wide. At three years old, Lady Lauren has time to improve, but so far the results have been frustratingly consistent: near enough to suggest she has ability, not close enough to deliver the win her the yard will be looking for.