Tigress Lilly

What makes this situation a little puzzling is the yard behind her. Tigress Lilly is trained by Lucinda Russell and Michael Scudamore at their operation in Milnathort, Perth and Kinross — a team that has sent out 49 winners already this season. That is a genuinely productive yard, which makes Tigress Lilly something of an outlier. She has competed four times at Class 4 level, which sits in the middle of the racing ladder — not the very top, but not the bottom rung either — and has not managed a win or a place finish at that level either.

There is not much to dress up here. Zero wins and zero places from nine races is a tough record, and nothing in her recent finishing positions suggests a breakthrough is imminent. Whether a change of tactics, a different track, or simply more time will turn things around remains to be seen. For now, she is one of those horses that keeps showing up without yet finding a way to show what she can do.