Lihou Lady

What does offer some reason for patience is who is training her. David Evans, based at Pandy in Monmouthshire, has sent out 37 winners already this season — that is a yard operating at real volume, with horses clearly fit and ready to run. When a stable is firing like that, even a horse without a win to her name can carry a degree of hope, because the infrastructure around her is obviously working. Evans is not a trainer with horses that drift along without purpose.

Lihou Lady raced just yesterday, which means she is very much an active story. Whether that run will spark something or simply add another quiet result to her record remains to be seen, but at three years old with only four races behind her, she is still at the stage where things can change quickly. Some horses take time to figure it out — the question is whether she is one of them.