Lemsairbat

The recent form tells a similar story. Looking back over the last six runs, the best it has managed is a runner-up finish, and a tenth-place effort in there suggests it has the odd off day too. It raced twelve days ago, so it arrives here fit and current, but the pattern of near-misses is hard to ignore.

What works in Lemsairbat's favour is the yard it comes from. Joseph Patrick O'Brien, based at Owning Hill in County Kilkenny, has sent out 153 winners already this season — a remarkable volume that speaks to an operation that knows how to get a horse ready to perform. When a stable of that size and quality keeps running a horse, it usually means they believe the win is coming. Patience is easier when the trainer has that kind of firepower behind them. Whether Lemsairbat can finally reward that faith is the question it has been asking for eleven races now.