Lady Manzor

The pattern becomes clearer when you look at what suits her. On normal ground conditions, Lady Manzor wins roughly 1 in every 4 races—2 wins from 8 attempts. She's also a distance specialist at 7 furlongs to a mile, where she has managed 3 wins from 11 races, or 27 per cent. At Lingfield specifically, she is a course specialist with 2 wins from 8 races, which shows she thrives at that track. Yet when racing at Class 4 level—the bread-and-butter category where she typically competes—she has won just once in eight races.

The clearest sign of her ability is her partnership with jockey Jack Dace. Together they have won 3 times from 12 races, a win rate of 25 per cent—double her overall record. When the right jockey is in the saddle, ground conditions favour her, and the distance suits, Lady Manzor becomes a very different proposition. She was trained by Amanda Perrett at Pulborough in West Sussex, a yard that has sent out five winners already this season. At her best, she is clearly a competitive racehorse. The question now is whether she can find the right race and return to the winner's circle before her recent form slides further away.