Las Canals

Both of those wins have come at Sedgefield, a tight, turning track in County Durham that rewards horses who are quick, nimble, and confident. Winning there once can be circumstance. Winning there twice suggests Las Canals has found a real home, and when a horse clearly enjoys a particular course, smart money tends to follow it back.

Behind the scenes, Las Canals is trained by Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero, a partnership based at Oldcastle in Cheshire that has quietly built into one of the busier yards in the country. Forty-three winners sent out this season alone tells you this is not a small operation running on luck — this is a yard that knows how to get horses ready to race and ready to win. Having an in-form stable behind you matters, and Las Canals has that in abundance.

The horse last raced 19 days ago and is still actively campaigning, so the yard — sorry, the team — clearly believe there is more to come. The recent form reads 1-1-9, meaning two wins followed by a finish well down the field, but the wins are the more recent results. That ninth-place run sits at the back of the form, not the front, which is exactly the shape of form you want to see. Las Canals is trending in the right direction, and with a yard firing on all cylinders and a track it clearly loves sitting on the calendar, there is plenty of reason to keep watching.