Love You More

The interesting detail here is where Love You More shines. Over the middle distances of 1 mile 1 furlong to 1 mile 2 furlongs, the horse has managed 1 win from 9 races, a win rate roughly double its overall record. That win at Lingfield clearly suits this horse's running style, suggesting Joseph Parr's Newmarket yard has identified a distance and track combination worth pursuing. The trainer, who has sent out 6 winners this season, continues to run Love You More regularly: after that July victory, the horse has raced six times in the past month, posting two sixth-place finishes, a seventh, a tenth, and most recently a sixth-place finish just yesterday. That pattern of regular racing and near-miss placings suggests the yard still believes there is something to work with.

One caution: at Class 6 level—the lower rungs of British racing—Love You More has yet to win in five attempts. The success at Lingfield came at a different class, and the gap between winning there and winning in the hotter competitions tells its own story. Still, for a horse that took fifteen races to break its duck, two months without another victory is not unusual. The real test will come in the next few weeks: whether Love You More can find another Lingfield-type opportunity, or whether that single summer win stands as a high-water mark.