Power Of Chora

What stands out, though, is the consistency of the struggle rather than any dramatic collapse in form. Those eights and sixes aren't the numbers of a horse threatening to win any day soon, but Power Of Chora did race just yesterday, which at least tells you the team believes there's something worth persisting with. Horses don't get entered and travelled to a racecourse unless the yard — or rather, the yard — see a reason to keep trying.

That yard is Joey Ramsden's operation out of Newark in Nottinghamshire, which has sent out five winners already this season. It's a yard that clearly knows how to get a horse to the winner's enclosure, which makes Power Of Chora something of an outlier in their string at the moment. The question is whether Ramsden can find the right race and the right conditions to finally unlock whatever potential is sitting in this young horse. Three-year-olds can take time to find their feet, and some need more races than others before the penny drops. Zero from eight isn't a record to shout about, but it's also not unheard of for a horse this age to be still learning its trade.

For now, Power Of Chora remains a horse in search of a breakthrough — one placed finish to its name, a busy schedule, and a trainer who hasn't given up on it yet. Sometimes that's all it takes.