What makes this moment worth watching is the timing. Sweet Desire raced just yesterday, meaning she is very much in the thick of her season right now, and there is every reason to think the yard — sorry, the team — have not given up on finding the right opportunity for her. Horses can take time to click, and three races is a relatively short audition.
She is trained by Steph Hollinshead at Upper Longdon in Staffordshire, and the yard is in decent nick this season, having sent out 7 winners already. Hollinshead is a trainer worth knowing — running a small yard and still putting winners on the board takes genuine skill and patience. If anyone can find the race that suits Sweet Desire, a trainer with that kind of eye for placing horses is a reasonable person to back to do it. The question is simply whether Sweet Desire has enough ability to reward that patience. Three blank runs tell us nothing has clicked yet. They do not tell us it never will.
| Course | Races | Results | Last run | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham Galloping |
2 | 2 other | 11 Aug | 0% |
| Doncaster Galloping |
1 | 1 other | 14 Jun | 0% |
| Ripon Sharp |
1 | 1 other | 17 May | 0% |
| Bath Undulating |
1 | 1 other | 8 Oct | 0% |