Sharp As Glass

The recent form reads 2-5, which means a runner-up finish followed by a fifth, most recently. That second place shows there is ability there; the horse has been competitive, just not yet able to turn promising runs into a win. After a ten-month absence, the key question is whether that time off has been used to address whatever was keeping it out and whether it comes back sharper.

Trainer S Curling operates out of Cashel in County Tipperary and has had a productive season, sending out 14 winners. That is an encouraging sign — horses returning from breaks in a yard that is in form tend to have more going for them than the bare stats suggest. Sharp As Glass might be short on experience, but it is coming back into a stable that clearly knows how to have a horse ready to run.