Love You More

The recent run of form makes for difficult reading. In the last six races, Love You More has managed one second place and one third but has otherwise been finishing well down the field, including three eighth-place finishes. The horse raced just yesterday, so it is clearly being kept busy, but the results have not been coming.

What makes this particularly tricky to spin positively is that most of those races have come at Class 6, the lowest tier of British racing — essentially the entry level. Five races at that grade, and still no win. That is the level where you would hope a horse might find its feet and pick up a victory, and Love You More has not managed it yet. Trainer Joseph Parr, based in Newmarket — one of the great heartlands of British racing — has sent out six winners from his yard this season, so the team clearly knows how to get horses winning. The challenge now is finding the right opportunity for this one.

There is no sugarcoating it: a horse that has run ten times without winning needs something to change, whether that is a different trip, a softer or firmer surface, or simply a race where the stars align. Love You More is not without merit — those two placed finishes show it can run competitively — but the step from placing to winning has so far proved one step too far.