Try Them

What does give reason for optimism is who is doing the training. Emmet Mullins, operating out of Bagenalstown in County Carlow, has been in fine fettle this season with 31 winners already on the board — a yard clearly in good form and not short of ability. When a stable is firing at that rate, even the horses without a win to their name are worth keeping an eye on. Mullins has shown he knows how to place a horse to its best advantage, and with Try Them only having had three runs to find its feet, there is every chance the penny hasn't dropped yet.

Having raced just yesterday, this is a horse very much in active campaign mode. Three races into a career at age four is relatively light experience, and sometimes horses simply need time and outings to work out what is being asked of them. A first win is still very much on the table.