Lennie Godber

The recent form figures tell a story of mid-pack mediocrity. Finishing fifth, fifth, fifth again, fourth, and seventh across its last six completed races, Lennie Godber tends to be there or thereabouts without ever threatening the front. That run of fifths is almost impressive in its consistency — just not the kind of consistency any trainer is looking for. The dash in the sequence means one run produced no official finishing position at all.

Andrew Hamilton sends out the horse, training from a yard that has posted three winners this season — so the operation is capable of getting horses to win races. Lennie Godber, however, has not been one of them. At Class 5, which is the level where horses with limited ability or form tend to compete, it has run three times without winning once. Class 5 is essentially the entry-level tier of British racing, which makes the blank record there all the harder to explain away.

The one mildly encouraging detail is that Lennie Godber raced just yesterday, so this is a horse in active training and clearly considered worth persisting with by the team. Whether that persistence pays off remains to be seen. Right now, it is a horse searching for its first breakthrough — and at six, with eight races behind it, that breakthrough is starting to feel overdue.