Arabian Desert

The recent form makes for interesting reading. Finishes of 5th, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, and 5th show a horse that ran three very competitive races back-to-back before fading slightly in its most recent outing — and that most recent run came just yesterday, so Arabian Desert is clearly in an active campaign right now. Three seconds in a row is the kind of sequence that suggests the horse is knocking on the door, even if the door hasn't opened yet.

Arabian Desert is trained at Musley Bank in North Yorkshire by the father-and-son team of Richard and Peter Fahey, a yard with a well-established reputation for placing horses well and keeping them busy. Nine winners already on the board this season tells you this is an operation that knows how to get results. Whether they can find the right opportunity for Arabian Desert to break through and register that elusive first win will be worth watching.