T Or Coffey

Trainer Jennie Candlish's Basford yard has been prolific this season with 64 winners, but T Or Coffey is not one of them. Most often ridden by Rory Mulligan — who has yet to find the winning post aboard the horse across nine attempts — the partnership has failed to spark. Where T Or Coffey does show a glimmer of something is over long distances of two miles or more, where it has won once from 12 races, roughly double its win rate elsewhere. That suggests the horse may be one that settles better in the thick of a longer race rather than battling in the shorter, choppier contests. At five years old and still active, T Or Coffey remains a regular on the circuit, a workhorse that turns up to do its job without ever quite delivering the breakthrough that would move it up the ladder. It is the kind of horse that supporters keep faith in, waiting for that second win that feels perpetually just around the corner.