Titanium

The interesting angle is ground conditions. He genuinely thrives when it is very wet and muddy: two wins from eight races (25%) tells you he is an animal with a clear preference and perhaps a future if the weather turns properly miserable. Over his preferred distances of 1 mile 1 furlong to 1 mile 2 furlongs, he has won 2 from 19 races (11%), so he shows a slight edge at those trips. Trainer Ciaran Murphy's Mullingar yard is doing its job—18 winners this season—but Titanium has not clicked with his most frequent pilot, Ben Coen, who is 0 from 5 aboard him. At seven years old and inactive in the winner's enclosure for such a stretch, Titanium is the sort of horse that runs honestly but rarely sparkles, and may be better suited to a different jockey or a better stroke of luck with the weather.