Move It On Over

The numbers tell a modest story. A win rate of 9 percent (1 win from 11 races) places him in the category of honest, hard-trying horses who seldom get their noses in front. Two placed finishes suggest he has the ability to run competitively, but he is not the type to dominate a race. His recent form has been mixed: a fifth-place finish, followed by a placed run, then a fourth, a blank, a twelfth, and an eighth in his last six outings. This tells you he is struggling for consistency, winning races one week and trailing badly the next. Yet he keeps returning to the track, which speaks to a trainer willing to find the right opportunities. Sligo clearly holds the key — it is the only place where he has found the winner's circle, and that success came just over a month ago. Whether he can repeat that feat, or whether Sligo was simply the perfect storm of conditions and opposition, remains to be seen.