Lyric

The most encouraging thing in Lyric's record is what happens when she runs over a mile and three or four furlongs — that slightly longer trip seems to suit her far better than anything shorter. At that distance, she has won 1 from 4 races, which works out to a 25% win rate, or roughly 1 in every 4. That is a meaningfully better return than her overall figures suggest, and it points to where her best chance of getting back to winning ways probably lies.

She is trained by the Jonjo and A J O'Neill yard, based in Cheltenham, and it is a team in decent form — 53 winners sent out this season is a solid haul and suggests the yard knows how to place horses to win. Whether they can find the right race to get Lyric's head back in front is the question, but they have the tools and the experience to try.