Superstorm

The recent form tells a story of a horse that runs consistently without threatening to win. Looking at the last six races — finishing fourth, sixth, sixth, fourth, second, and third — there's a pattern of respectable efforts that fade or fall just short. That runner-up finish is the closest Superstorm has come, which will be both encouraging and frustrating in equal measure for trainer Charlie Fellowes and his team. Fellowes operates out of Newmarket, one of racing's most famous centres, and has been in good form this season with 21 winners sent out from his yard. Getting Superstorm off the mark would add one more to that tally.

Jockey Mikkel Mortensen has partnered this horse five times without a win between them, which at some point prompts the question of whether a change of rider might spark something different. The horse has typically been running at Class 5, the entry level of British Flat racing, where competition is theoretically at its most accessible. Going 0 from 4 at that level means Superstorm hasn't been able to take advantage of those softer opportunities, which is the most honest way of putting it.

Still only three years old and having raced just yesterday, there's time for the picture to change. Young horses can take a while to mature and figure things out, and the placed finishes at least show Superstorm isn't embarrassing itself. But for now, this is a horse whose profile is defined more by patience than performance — and somewhere, someone in the Fellowes yard is still waiting for the day it all clicks.