Love Like This

What stands out is the consistency of effort rather than any explosive ability. In the last six runs, Love Like This has placed three times — a fourth, a third, and a seventh — while finishing outside the frame on the other three occasions. That suggests a horse plugging away at a level where good days are wins for other horses, but respectable days are placing efforts. Ridden most regularly by John Aherne, with whom it has run ten times without a win, the horse has now been without a second victory for three months. Trained by John Patrick Ryan at Templemore in Co Tipperary, a yard that has sent out 21 winners this season, Love Like This remains active — it raced just a day ago — and continues to hunt for that elusive second success.