With Glory

Trained by Linda Perratt out of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, With Glory is part of a yard that has sent out 19 winners this season, so the operation clearly knows how to get a horse ready to perform. Perratt's team has a record of finding the right opportunities for their horses, which suggests With Glory is likely being placed carefully rather than simply thrown into races and hoped for the best.

At the level With Glory typically competes at — Class 4, which is solidly mid-tier racing — the horse has run three times without a win. That is not unusual for a three-year-old still learning the job, and the recent sequence of 5-9-7-5-2 before the latest run shows a horse that has been close without quite getting there. The 9th place and 7th place finishes are harder to explain away, but young horses are notoriously inconsistent, and form can swing dramatically from one race to the next at this age. With Glory raced just yesterday, which means the yard are keeping it active and busy — sometimes that momentum is exactly what a horse needs to finally put a good run together.