Ms K M Ryan

The most notable feature of her short career so far is a regular partnership with trainer John Joseph Hanlon, who has put her up in 10 of her 14 rides to date. That kind of repeated trust from a yard is meaningful for a young jockey — it suggests Hanlon sees something worth developing, even if the wins haven't arrived yet. Ten rides with one trainer in a career this brief is less a statistic and more a working relationship, the sort of foundation that careers are quietly built on.

Fourteen rides without a winner sounds bleak written down, but it really isn't. The first winner is the hardest one, and for a jockey still in the earliest weeks of their career, getting competitive rides and learning the craft race by race is exactly what this period is for. The only meaningful question right now is whether that first winner is coming — and with a trainer backing her regularly, the answer is probably yes, soon.