Moylussa

Since that Tipperary success around 18 months ago, Moylussa has gone six races without a win, though there are signs of life in the recent form — a second-place finish features in those last six runs, suggesting the horse is competitive enough to threaten without quite getting over the line. The sequence of 3-7-4-6-4-2 reads as uneven, mixing some respectable efforts with races where the horse was well beaten. At 7 years old, Moylussa is fully mature, which makes it harder to argue improvement is just around the corner — though the fact that the team keeps running the horse tells its own story about belief in another day.

With three places alongside that single win, Moylussa has shown enough to suggest it belongs on a racecourse, even if a second victory has so far proved elusive.