Wolf Of Badenoch

What makes the picture slightly more complicated is where Wolf Of Badenoch has been asked to run. Four of those races have come at Class 2 level — some of the better races in Britain — and the horse has not won any of them. That is a tough ask for an animal with a single career win to its name, and it may explain why results have been hard to come by. At distances between seven furlongs and a mile, where this horse is most at home, the record reads 1 win from 7 races, or about 1 in every 7 — slightly more encouraging, but still modest.

Jamie Spencer, one of the most experienced jockeys around, has been in the saddle for six of those 15 races and has that one win to show for it — a rate of roughly 1 in every 6 rides together. The yard, run by Tony Culhane and Stella Barclay out of Garstang in Lancashire, has sent out six winners this season, so it is not a quiet operation. Wolf Of Badenoch raced just yesterday, which means the yard are keeping this horse busy and clearly believe there is a race to be won somewhere. Whether that somewhere arrives soon is the question.