The Noble Butler

The Noble Butler has yet to trouble the scoreboard in his one outing to date, finishing fifth when last spotted a day ago. At five years old, he is coming to racing relatively late, and with just a single race under his belt, there is little form to work with. Emma Lavelle, his trainer at the Ogbourne Maizey yard in Wiltshire, has been in sharp form this season with 44 winners already, so the infrastructure and expertise around The Noble Butler are solid — but the horse himself remains an unknown quantity. Whether he will develop into a racehorse of note, or whether this will be the sum total of his racing career, is impossible to say at this stage.