My Good Pal

Partnered most often with Mr B M Coonan—who has ridden him sixteen times—My Good Pal has won just once from those pairings, a figure that underscores how tough life has been for this partnership. He remains in the care of Gavin Cromwell's Navan yard, a stable that has been sending winners into the ring at a steady clip this season, though My Good Pal himself has not been among them recently. Still active after racing just a day ago, he clearly has the constitution to keep competing, and with a place or two suggesting he is not entirely out of his depth, there may be another small day in him yet. For now, though, he is the kind of honest soldier who turns up, does his best, and rarely troubles the bookmakers.