Steal A Glance

The recent form reads 5-9-3 in the last three completed runs, which tells an interesting story. Third place is encouraging, ninth is a wobble, and fifth sits somewhere in between — the kind of inconsistency that makes a horse frustrating to follow but not one you'd write off entirely. Steal A Glance raced just one day ago, so this is very much a horse in active campaigning, being kept busy by the team at Mosterton.

That team is trained by Anthony Honeyball, whose yard in Dorset has sent out 51 winners this season — a genuinely productive operation, and not the sort of place that wastes time on horses with nothing to offer. The fact that Honeyball keeps running Steal A Glance suggests he believes there is a race to be won somewhere. Finding the right opportunity for a horse that has placed but not won is one of the quieter arts of training — picking a race where the competition drops just enough for a good day to become a winning one. Whether Steal A Glance can deliver that day remains the open question.