Shes All Pride

Deborah Cole runs a small but active yard out of Knowle in Warwickshire, and has sent out four winners already this season, which tells you the operation knows how to get a horse to the track in decent shape. Most of Shes All Pride's racing has come at Class 4 level — solid, mid-tier races where the competition is real without being elite — and she has yet to win from three attempts at that grade. That is not a disaster, but it does mean she has more to prove before anyone would back her with confidence.

What is perhaps most striking is that she raced just yesterday, so she is very much a horse in active campaigning. Whether that recent run offers any fresh clues will depend on where she finished, but the broader picture is of a horse that competes honestly, finds the winner's enclosure elusive, and leaves her small team still waiting for a breakthrough. Sometimes these things click into place; sometimes they don't. Right now, Shes All Pride sits firmly in the "nearly" column.