Miss B Coward

The one partnership worth watching with a slight raised eyebrow is the one with One True King. The horse has run three times for Coward without winning, which on its own is not a crisis — plenty of good horses take time to find their moment — but it does stand out against the otherwise sharp record the yard has put together. Whether One True King simply needs the right race or a change of conditions, that is the combination to keep an eye on when it next lines up.

With only three years in the job and a small string of runners, it is genuinely too early to draw firm conclusions about what kind of trainer Coward will become. But a 1-from-3 record in the past year is the kind of number that gets people in racing talking, and quietly watching.