Nanoscience

What's encouraging is that Nanoscience has won twice recently. The last victory came at Wetherby on 4 June, but that was four months ago, and the horse has been unable to repeat that success since. The earlier win came at Kempton Park in April, so there's evidence the horse knows how to finish first. The problem is consistency — with four placings in six runs, Nanoscience regularly gets into the frame but struggles to close out victories when it matters.

Training with Andrew Balding at Kingsclere is a genuine asset. Balding's yard has already sent out 202 winners this season alone, so Nanoscience is in an operation that knows how to develop young horses and get them competing at a decent level. Whether Nanoscience can push on to become a genuine winning proposition will depend on sharpening up that temperament and learning to convert more of these placings into victories. The potential is clearly there — the question now is whether the horse can find the consistency to match it.