Tahcawin

The recent form figures — 5-12-1-6-4-5 — tell a mixed story. There's a lot of mid-pack finishing, a brief disappearance down to twelfth, and then that breakthrough win sandwiched in the middle. It's the kind of form that suggests a horse still working out how to put it all together consistently, rather than one that's simply not good enough. The fact that Tahcawin raced just yesterday confirms this is a horse very much in the thick of a campaign right now.

Behind the scenes, Joseph G Murphy's yard in Fethard, County Tipperary has been in solid form this season with 19 winners sent out — a productive operation that knows how to place horses where they can win. Murphy isn't a trainer who wastes entries, so the fact that Tahcawin keeps getting opportunities suggests the team believes there's more to come from this horse. Whether Tahcawin can rediscover the form that produced that Fairyhouse win is the question worth watching.