Viceregent

What's perhaps most telling is the longer distances, where Viceregent notionally performs best. Between 1m6f and 2m, the horse has won just 1 from 14 races—a 7% return—which sounds slightly better in theory but means the horse still loses 13 of every 14 attempts even where it suits best. The recent form makes grim reading: seventh, tenth, seventeenth, third, sixth, and tenth across the last six runs. That third-place finish is the closest Viceregent has come to a second victory, but it didn't deliver. Philip Byrnes, who rides the horse most often, has managed nothing from eight attempts together—0 wins—suggesting neither horse nor rider have unlocked anything special in partnership. Viceregent raced just a day ago and remains active, so the search for that elusive second win continues, but the evidence points to a horse running out of time and running out of chances.