Shadow Run

The most recent runs tell an interesting story. After a tenth-place finish ten days ago, Shadow Run bounced back with a second-place finish just six races back, then has since managed a fifth and a sixth, showing the horse can mix poor efforts with much stronger ones. Trained by Scott Dixon at Rolleston in Nottinghamshire, Shadow Run runs for a yard that has sent out thirty-three winners this season, so there is genuine racing experience behind the scenes. At three years old, the horse is still young enough for improvement, and for a horse that has come close to winning multiple times, the gap between second place and the winner's circle can be a narrow one. Whether that breakthrough comes soon will depend partly on finding the right race and the right conditions — but Shadow Run has proved capable enough to suggest it is only a matter of time.