Miss Justice

That Salisbury win is the headline on her CV. Class 1 races are the top tier — the kind of afternoon where the best horses in the country turn up — and Miss Justice won one of them at three. In three attempts at that level she has won once and placed twice, meaning she has never finished out of the frame in a top-flight race. That is a 33% win rate at the highest level, or roughly 1 in every 3 runs, which is genuinely strong at a tier where many horses never win at all.

She is trained by John and Thady Gosden out of Newmarket, one of the most successful yards in British racing. That operation has sent out 136 winners already this season alone, so they are not short of horses to run. The fact that they have placed Miss Justice in Class 1 company, and she has delivered, suggests they have always thought highly of her.

The one thing worth flagging is the gap since her last run. She has not raced for roughly five months — 170 days to be precise — so she is coming back from a meaningful break. Horses returning after that sort of time away can take a race or two to find their best form, though some bounce straight back. Her recent sequence of 2-5-1-1-2-2 (reading from most recent backwards) shows a horse that was running consistently well before she was put away for the winter, so the underlying ability is clearly there. Whether she comes back sharp on her first run is the question worth watching.