Largy Meadow

The six-year-old is trained by R Mike Smith out of Galston in East Ayrshire, a yard that has been in decent form this season — 25 winners is a healthy total and suggests Smith knows how to get a horse ready to run. Largy Meadow has typically been asked to compete at Class 4, the middle tier of British racing, and has gone winless in all four races at that level. That does not make it a hopeless case, but it does suggest the horse may need things to fall its way — a small field, an off day for the favourite, or a drop in class — to break through.

What keeps the profile interesting is the activity. Largy Meadow ran just one day ago, meaning this is a horse in the thick of a campaign right now. Those two recent second-place finishes are a reminder that the gap between placing and winning can be frustratingly thin. Whether Smith and his team can find the right spot to turn one of those near-misses into a first victory is the question worth watching.