Pavilion End

At six, Pavilion End is at the age where many horses are either coming good or beginning to slip backwards. The numbers suggest it sits somewhere in between. Across 20 career races, it has won just once and placed eight times — a 5 percent win rate that tells you this is not a horse that finds the winner's enclosure often. Charles O'Brien's Straffan yard has had a modest season so far, which provides some context: Pavilion End is one of a relatively small group of horses being trained there. The horse runs best at distances between a mile and six furlongs and two miles, a middle-ground stretch of the racing calendar, and even there it has managed only the one win from 11 attempts. There is nothing obviously wrong with Pavilion End's record — it places regularly enough to suggest it belongs in competitive races — but there is nothing particularly encouraging about it either. At this stage of its career, it is essentially a consistent but unrewarding proposition, the sort of horse that turns up race after race without ever quite delivering enough to make an owner's day.