Queen Roslyn

The horse runs best for trainer Brian Ellison's Norton yard, which has been highly productive this season with 43 winners already. She clearly gets along with jockey Sean Quinlan, who has ridden her in five races and won on two of those occasions — a 40% win rate that suggests genuine partnership. On normal, standard ground conditions, Queen Roslyn is noticeably more reliable: she has won twice from five races under those circumstances, compared with nothing from runs on faster or wetter surfaces. She also prefers longer distances between 1 mile 6 furlongs and 2 miles, where she has taken two wins from five attempts, suggesting she has the stamina to settle into a rhythm over extended ground.

Newcastle is her best track by some margin. She has won twice from just four races there, a strong record that marks the course out as ideal for her running style. Most of her wins — three from five career victories — have come in Class 6 races, the lower end of the racing ladder, which tells you roughly where her ability sits. There is little to suggest she will step up to bigger occasions with much success, but as a consistent performer in modest company on her preferred surfaces and distances, she offers value to her the yard and has proved herself a reliable racehorse over the medium term.