Schemaya

That Windsor win came over a mile and three to four furlongs, which is where Schemaya genuinely looks the part. At that trip, it has won 1 from 5 races, a 20% win rate — one in every five, which is actually a respectable return at that distance. The problem is elsewhere. Drop it into its most common grade of competition, Class 4, and the record reads zero wins from five attempts. It places, it threatens, but it has not converted. Recent form tells a similar story: its last six results read 3-3-5-5-2-6 in chronological order, which is a horse that occasionally looks like it might do something and then doesn't quite get there.

Sean Levey rides Schemaya most often, and together they have that one win from five races — a 20% win rate as a partnership, which is not a bad number at all. The fact that the win and the partnership overlap suggests there is something working between horse and rider, even if results have not followed since. Schemaya raced just yesterday, which means it is in active training and clearly being kept busy by the Hannon yard.

At ten races into its career with a single win and five placed efforts, Schemaya is the kind of horse that finishes second or third often enough to keep everyone interested without quite rewarding their patience. It is not untalented — a yard sending out over a hundred winners does not persist with horses that have nothing to offer. But right now, Schemaya is a horse that needs to find its Windsor form again, and sooner rather than later.