Thepassingcyclone

What might offer some encouragement is who is doing the training. Dominic Ffrench Davis operates out of Lambourn in Berkshire — one of the most famous racing villages in Britain, a place where serious yards line the valley and the gallops have been producing winners for over a century. His team has sent out 10 winners already this season, which suggests the operation knows what it is doing. A horse can look unremarkable on paper and still come good once the right race, the right ground, or simply the right day arrives.

For now, Thepassingcyclone is a horse with everything still to prove. Three races in and still searching for that breakthrough moment — but still racing, still in training, and with a yard behind it that clearly has the knack of getting horses to win.