M A Gunn

The most telling detail is the partnership with Kilheffernan. Seven races together, zero wins. That kind of repeated pairing suggests Gunn believes in the horse and keeps giving it chances — but belief and results are still some distance apart. Seven attempts without a winner is a frustrating run by any measure, and it raises the question of whether a change of approach might unlock something different.

None of this means the story is over. Training racehorses is genuinely hard, and plenty of trainers who are now household names spent their early years exactly where Gunn is now — learning, adjusting, and absorbing losses. The first winner, when it comes, will have been a long time in the making.