May Encounter

The partnership with jockey Nicola Currie has not yet yielded a breakthrough. Across five rides together, neither horse nor rider has found the winning formula, which raises the question of whether a change in the saddle might help shake things up. Trainer Henry Candy, who runs a yard in Oxfordshire that has sent eight winners to the track this season, continues to campaign May Encounter in Class 5 company — the bottom rung of the competitive ladder. The fact that the horse has run four times at that level and failed to win suggests it may simply lack the pace or consistency required to break through, even against modest opposition. With the horse still active and raced as recently as a day ago, the yard are clearly hoping for improvement, but the evidence so far is that May Encounter is still searching for the moment when everything clicks.