Tiny Riot

Trained by Dan Skelton at Alcester in Warwickshire—a yard that has sent out 198 winners this season alone—Tiny Riot has the infrastructure to improve. But the last six races paint a picture of inconsistency. Two second places and two third places suggest the horse has ability and can get close to winning, but the most recent outing, just a day ago, was a seventh-place finish that broke a run of more competitive efforts. The gap between that Hexham win and anything since is telling: seven weeks of racing without another victory hints that one-off success may have been the high water mark rather than the start of a run.

The real question hanging over Tiny Riot is ceiling. Racing at Class 5 level—the lower tiers of British racing—the horse has yet to win in three attempts at that grade, despite being competitive elsewhere. Whether that reflects the horse being out of its depth or simply bad luck in three runs remains to be seen. At this stage, Tiny Riot is a work in progress: capable of winning on its day, most at home over distance, but still chasing consistency.