Mr Vettori

What makes the profile more compelling is the yard behind him. Mrs John Harrington trains out of Moone in Co Kildare, and her operation has sent out 51 winners already this season — that is the output of a team operating at a high level, and horses in her care tend to be placed with purpose. When a trainer of that calibre runs a horse who has won 1 in 4 races, you are likely looking at something they think can go on improving. His most recent run was just yesterday, so he is clearly in a busy and active spell of his career.

The one slight curiosity is the gap between his win in October and now — roughly six months have passed since that Gowran Park success, and in the interim his form reads a second and two more placed efforts. He has not been disgraced, but he has not quite managed to reproduce that winning feeling either. Whether Gowran Park brings out something special in him, or whether the right race simply has not come along yet, is the interesting question hanging over his next run.