Semper Femina

That single run ended in second place, which is a perfectly respectable introduction to racing. It means she has already shown she can compete and finish ahead of most of the field — just not quite first. For a horse with no wins from one race, the glass here is very much half full. A runner-up finish on debut suggests there is something worth watching, and with a yard firing at this rate behind her, it is a reasonable bet that the yard — sorry, that the team at Herridge — will have learned plenty from that first outing and know exactly where to place her next.

Having raced just one day ago, Semper Femina is bang up to date, and with the season still in full swing, her story is very much still being written. One run is barely a sentence, let alone a paragraph. The interesting question is simply what comes next.