Dominic Elsworth

The partnership that has produced his best results is with jockey Robert Dunne, who has been in the saddle for 11 of those 26 runners and provided the yard's sole winner — a win rate of around 1 in every 11, or 9%, which is meaningfully better than the yard's overall average and suggests Dunne is very much the first-choice pilot when it matters. When the ground is riding normally, Elsworth's runners perform at their best, winning 1 from 10 in those conditions — a 10% win rate that stands well above his overall figures and hints that he may be selective about running his horses when the ground suits.

One relationship that hasn't clicked yet is with Emerald Time, a horse he has sent out four times without a win. Four runs is still a small sample, but it's the most significant partnership on the record so far, and getting that horse into the winner's enclosure would be a notable early milestone for the trainer. At this stage of a training career, every winner is a building block, and Elsworth is still very much laying the foundations.