Mister Sandman

Mister Sandman is trained by Gary and Josh Moore at their yard in Lower Beeding, West Sussex. It is a serious operation — the Moore team has sent out 99 winners already this season, so they know what they are doing. The horse is ridden most often by jockey Tom Queally, though that partnership has yet to produce a winner from five attempts together. Most of Mister Sandman's races have been in Class 6 company, the lower reaches of the sport, where you might expect more consistent success. Instead, six tries at that level have brought zero wins. There is something about this horse that keeps it just shy of the finish line — a place here, a fourth there — but the breakthrough has not come. It remains a horse that the yard clearly thinks has potential, otherwise they would have stopped trying long ago. Whether Mister Sandman finally finds its way into the winner's circle remains to be seen.