Six Blue

Trained by Richard Phillips at Adlestrop in Gloucestershire, Six Blue is part of a yard that has been modest in its output this season, with only three winners sent out so far. For a horse now in its seventh year of racing with a blank record across nine attempts, the pattern is clear: Six Blue is a racer who finds the actual winning of races a genuine challenge. That said, her recent sixth-place finish shows she is still competitive enough to be placed in races, and her pair of fifth-place finishes hint that she is at least capable of running near the sharper end when conditions or opposition align. At this stage of her career and given her record, Six Blue appears to be a horse treading water in the middle tiers of racing — still active, still trying, but facing an increasingly steep mountain to climb.