Letsbeatsepsis

Class 6 is the entry level of British racing, the division where horses tend to be finding their feet or filling a role without threatening the big prizes. Letsbeatsepsis has spent all six of its most recent races at that level and has yet to win any of them, which does raise the honest question of whether a first victory is coming. That said, finishing in the frame — meaning the top three or four — as often as this horse has suggests the ability is there. Racing can be cruel in that way: you can run a perfectly decent race half a dozen times and still have nothing to show for it in the record books.

Tom Queally, a jockey with plenty of experience at this level, has been in the saddle for all six of those runs without managing to convert any of them into a win. That combination — horse and jockey — will be looking to change the story soon. The team behind the horse is Gary and Josh Moore, a father-and-son training operation based in the West Sussex countryside that has sent out 99 winners already this season, which by any measure is a yard firing on all cylinders. The fact that a stable capable of that kind of output is still running this horse regularly suggests they believe there is a race to be won somewhere. With Letsbeatsepsis having raced just yesterday, that search is clearly still very much ongoing.