Princess Day

Her recent form tells the story of a horse still learning. In her last four outings, she finished second, then eleventh, then didn't run, then came first. That second place shows she can get close; the eleventh suggests she's encountered races where everything didn't quite come together. The fact that she raced just a day ago means she's still actively campaigned and presumably still improving. Jeremy Scott, her trainer at Brompton Regis in Somerset, has sent out 18 winners this season, so she's in a yard that knows how to get horses ready. The ten-month gap between her Chepstow win and now is notable — it's not that she's been idle, but she hasn't repeated that magic in the races that have followed. At five, she's no spring chicken in racing terms, but she's old enough that the yard clearly believe there's more to come from her. Whether she can find her way back to the winner's circle depends on whether that Chepstow race was a true sign of her ability or an isolated moment when everything lined up just right.