Roccabaker

What's worth watching is her recent form. In her last six outings she has finished in the placings four times, including a third just recently and a seventh before that. That suggests some consistency creeping in, the kind of steady improvement that trainers at David Harry Kelly's yard in County Tipperary can work with. Kelly's operation has sent out thirteen winners this season, so there is form running through the stable. With jockey C M Quirke in the saddle — they have partnered up nine times, winning once — Roccabaker looks like a horse that might find his way back to the winner's circle soon if the race type and conditions fall right. She is active and racing regularly, which is where horses like this belong: in competitive action rather than waiting for something that might never come. For punters and fans who love an underdog, there is something appealing about a horse that keeps turning up and trying, even if the headlines rarely come.