Mae Amor

She opened her account at Wolverhampton in November 2024 and has since added three more wins to her name, including a victory at Hamilton Park as recently as three weeks ago. At four years old, she is still relatively young and developing, which makes that career prize money and consistent placing record all the more encouraging. Rebecca Menzies, who trains her from a yard in Morden, Durham, has had a productive season — 36 winners sent out already — and Mae Amor looks like one of the stable's reliable performers rather than a one-off flash.

The majority of her races have come at Class 4 level, which is solid mid-tier competition in Britain. It is worth noting, though, that she has only won 1 of those 12 Class 4 races, an 8% win rate — roughly 1 in every 12. Her overall record looks better than her class record suggests, which implies some of her wins have come when the competition has been a touch easier. Jockey David Nolan has partnered her five times and won once, a rate of 1 in 5, and there is clearly a workable partnership building between horse and rider.

Her recent form reads 9-18-1-12-7-5, and the honest truth is it is patchy — the win last month interrupts a sequence of lower finishes on either side. But Mae Amor raced just yesterday, which tells you everything about how active and robust she is. She is not a horse who needs babying between runs. If Menzies points her back to Wolverhampton, that record of 2 wins from 4 visits there will make her worth watching very closely indeed.