Wild Desert

The real encouragement sits in Wild Desert's performance over 7 furlongs to a mile, where it has managed 1 win from 4 races at that trip—a 25% success rate. That's a meaningful stretch where the horse shows something, even if consistency remains elusive. Trained by Charlie Appleby at Newmarket, Wild Desert runs out of one of the most prolific yards in the country; Appleby's team has sent out 121 winners already this season alone, so the horse is in capable hands. What Wild Desert needs now is to string together another winning run and prove that May victory wasn't a one-off. At three years old, there is time to develop, but with 16 months between that Haydock win and now, the wait for number two has grown longer than any horse or trainer would like.