Stellar Sunrise

What stands out is the horse's preference for normal ground. On the kind of surface most horses encounter most of the time, Stellar Sunrise has won two of three races—a win rate of 67 per cent. That is the sort of consistency trainers dream about. On anything else, the record is murkier: one win from seven races tells a different story. Andrew Balding, training from Kingsclere in Hampshire, has built one of the country's strongest yards—202 winners this season alone—and clearly saw enough in Stellar Sunrise to campaign it at the highest level. The big question now is whether the horse can rediscover that form from last summer, or whether those two Class 2 wins were the peak of what it is capable of. At three years old and currently in racing, there is still plenty of time to answer that.