P J Breen

The closest thing to a defining partnership in his yard is with Lord Lackendarra, a horse Breen has sent out 12 times without managing to reach the winner's enclosure. Twelve races together is a meaningful sample — enough to suggest this is a combination still hunting for the right opportunity rather than one that has simply been unlucky once or twice.

It would be easy to write off a trainer with no wins in four years, but the fact that Breen is still active, still entering horses, and still building experience counts for something. Every trainer who has ever won a race was once in exactly this position. The story here is unfinished.