Oakford

The trainer is Roger Teal, who operates out of Lambourn in Berkshire — one of the most famous racing villages in Britain, home to dozens of yards and steeped in the sport's history. Teal has sent out 22 winners already this season, which is a solid return and suggests a yard in good form and confident in what it has in the stable. For a young horse like Oakford, being in a yard that is actively firing in winners is no small thing — it means the team knows what it is doing and, when they run a two-year-old, they generally have a reason.

At this stage, two races is barely an introduction. Some horses take half a season just to work out what racing actually is, and a second-place finish already shows Oakford has run competitively. There is nothing here yet to judge a ceiling, but with a busy trainer, a famous training base, and a horse that has only just started its journey, the next few runs will tell a far more interesting story.