Victor Cee

Competing mostly at Class 4 level, which sits in the middle tier of British racing, Victor Cee has won 1 from 5 races at that grade — roughly 1 in 5, which is a decent return if you can keep the form consistent. The problem is that his recent sequence of 7-8-3-5-2-3 tells a slightly muddled story: a couple of encouraging runs mixed in with some that went nowhere. He raced just yesterday, so he is clearly being kept busy by his trainer Phil McEntee, whose Newmarket yard has sent out 16 winners this season — a team that evidently knows how to get horses to the track in form and ready to run.

The Hamilton Park win is worth holding onto as a reference point. It tells you this horse has figured it out at least once, and that matters. Plenty of horses at this level run competitively for months without ever breaking through. Victor Cee has already done the hard part — he just needs to find his way back to that moment. At three years old, there is still time to grow into something more consistent, and with a trainer who is clearly keeping him active and confident, another win is far from out of the question.