Sydney Grace

The recent form reading 1-6 tells the story neatly: a sixth place on debut, then a win next time out. That kind of improvement between a first and second race is exactly what good young horses do, and it suggests Sydney Grace learned quickly from its introduction to racing. Winning on only your second ever start is genuinely difficult — plenty of horses take far longer to get off the mark.

Sydney Grace is trained by Charlie Fellowes out of Newmarket, one of the spiritual homes of British racing. Fellowes has had a productive season, sending out 21 winners, and Sydney Grace is part of that momentum. With a horse this young and this lightly raced, the interesting question now is simply where it goes next — because on this evidence, it clearly has more to offer.