Mrs Trump

Paul Midgley, her trainer based in North Yorkshire, sums her up perfectly: a horse that does not have natural brilliance but makes up for it with sheer grit and honesty. She always tries hard and is the sort that shows up race after race regardless. What matters is understanding what gets the best from her. She needs a flat, six-furlong race — over the shorter five furlongs she gets outpaced and simply runs out of track. When the ground is wet or muddy, she performs noticeably better, winning roughly 1 in every 3.5 races on those conditions, compared to her overall average. She is also a course specialist at Redcar, where she has won 2 of her 7 races. Most of her racing has been in Class 6 company — the lower grade — where she has won 5 of 28 races, a rate of roughly 1 in every 5.5. When Mark Winn rides her, the partnership is particularly sharp: he has been aboard for three of her five wins from 14 rides together, a winning rate of 21 percent. Put her on the right track, in the right conditions, with the right rider, and Mrs Trump becomes a genuine proposition rather than a struggling handicapper.