Turn And Finish

The five-year-old is trained by Steph Hollinshead at Upper Longdon in Staffordshire, a yard that has sent out 7 winners already this season — so there's clearly form in the stable. When Paul O'Brien climbs aboard, the combination has won 1 from 5 races together, a 20% rate, or 1 in every 5, which is solid and suggests the pair have some understanding. Whether that partnership can produce another win is the question hanging over Turn And Finish right now.

The recent form is the difficult part of the story. That Catterick win was now 16 months ago, and the last 6 races have produced nothing better than a second place, with a couple of eighth-place finishes in the most recent outings. The horse raced just one day ago, so it is very much in the thick of things — but the results are not following. Seven places from 18 races shows Turn And Finish has been competitive often enough, always hovering without quite delivering. At Class 4, the level where it races most often, the record is actually 1 win from 3 races — 1 in every 3 — which hints that on the right day, at the right class, over the right distance, there is a performance waiting. The task for Hollinshead's team is finding all three at once.