Ravenspire

The horse is trained by K R Burke at Coverham in North Yorkshire, and that context matters. Burke's yard has already sent out 139 winners this season alone — that is a serious training operation, the kind that knows how to place a young horse in a race it can win, and equally, how to spot one worth following when it does. Ravenspire racing out of that stable means it is in professional hands with plenty of firepower behind it.

With just one run to go on, there is not yet a story of peaks and troughs or hard-luck tales to tell. What there is, though, is an unblemished record and a yard in excellent form. For anyone curious about following a young horse from the very beginning, Ravenspire is exactly the kind to watch — still an open book, but the first chapter reads well.