Trust Amy

Her trainer Gary Hanmer describes her as a pocket rocket: sharp, quick, and compact, with genuine pace that stood out when she arrived from the breeze-ups a year earlier. The decision to bypass the seven-furlong race on soft ground at her breakthrough and drop her into a Class 4 instead proved exactly right. Hanmer was quietly hopeful but pleasantly surprised by how well she ran, and his comments after the win — "I don't think she needed to improve coming into today" — suggest he saw something in her Haydock outing that gave him confidence. At Class 4 level, she has won 1 from 4 races, which shows she belongs in that grade when conditions and luck align.

The catch is what has happened since. Trust Amy has not found the winner's circle in her last six races, despite being raced actively. Her recent form reads 17-6-7-9-3-8 — a ninth place just over a week ago being her latest run. That third-place finish four races back remains her best effort in the current sequence. At three years old, with 13 months between wins, she is at a crossroads: still young enough to find another level, but long enough without success that her the yard will need to find the right opportunity. Chester remains her track — that is where her sole win came, and where owner Simon Boucher clearly loves to run his horses. The question now is whether Hanmer can rediscover the spark that made her so exciting on that September afternoon.