Prague

That Newmarket win is the headline. Winning 1 from 11 races at the top level — around 9%, or roughly 1 in every 11 — sounds modest until you appreciate what those fields look like. The horses that turn up in Class 1 races at Newmarket are the best in Britain, and Prague beat them. That is not luck; that is a horse capable of producing something special when the occasion demands it.

The recent run of form, however, tells a different story. In the last six races — all finishing between fourth and tenth — Prague has not managed to reproduce that peak. A sequence of 5-5-10-4-5-5 suggests a horse that is consistently competitive without quite finding that extra gear. The last win came 19 months ago, which is a long absence from the winner's enclosure for a horse still racing actively; it raced just one day ago.

Prague is trained by Dylan Cunha, whose Newmarket yard has sent out 45 winners this season — a strong, productive operation. The fact that Prague is still being pointed at the highest-level races rather than being dropped into easier company says something about how Cunha's team view this horse. They clearly believe the Newmarket and Sandown wins were not flukes.

The question hanging over Prague right now is whether another big-day performance is coming or whether those two wins represent the ceiling. For now, it remains a horse worth watching — not because it wins often, but because when it does, it wins somewhere that counts.