Namiid

The recent form tells the story. In its last six outings, Namiid has picked up two second-place finishes and another two fourths, showing up regularly without quite delivering. There is a pattern here of a horse that competes but struggles to find the extra gear needed to win at this level. Ben Coen, who has ridden Namiid most often, has partnered the horse eight times and won once—a 12% win rate together, which is respectable but hardly dominant. Trainer J. P. Murtagh, based at Coolaghknock Glebe in County Kildare, has had a productive season overall with 53 winners sent out from the yard, so the infrastructure is solid. But Namiid remains a work in progress, a horse that showed promise when it broke through at Navan but has struggled to build on that breakthrough in the months that followed. Still active and racing regularly, it remains a prospect that the team will be hoping can find another gear and start converting those near-misses into victories.