Skye Glance

The recent form figures tell a straightforward tale: a finishing position that wasn't recorded in the first run, then eighth, fifth, and most recently fourth. That progression — from the back of the field toward the fringes of the frame — is at least pointing in the right direction. Fourth is agonisingly close to a place, and if that trajectory continues, a first reward may not be far away.

Skye Glance is trained by Alex Hales at Edgcote in Oxfordshire, a yard that has sent out 12 winners already this season. That kind of output shows Hales knows how to get horses to win races, which gives some encouragement that Skye Glance's time may yet come with the right opportunity. The key question now is whether the team can find the conditions that finally unlock what this horse is capable of.