Betty Bassett

The broader record tells a more modest story: 1 win and 2 places from 13 races, which works out at roughly 1 win in every 13 attempts — an 8% win rate that reflects a horse who competes honestly without always threatening to take the prize. Her recent run of form reads 13-6-4-2-7-5 going back through her last six races, which means she has not won since that Wetherby success and has been finishing in the bottom half of the field more often than not. A second-place finish in that sequence is encouraging, though — she is not miles behind the winner every time.

Distance seems to matter a great deal with Betty Bassett. At a mile and three to a mile and four furlongs — roughly a lap and a bit of a standard track — she has won 1 from 8 races, a 12% win rate that is comfortably her best across any trip. That Wetherby win came over this sort of distance, and it suggests she needs a proper test of stamina to show her best. In terms of race grade, she has mostly competed at Class 5, which sits towards the lower end of the racing ladder, and she is yet to win at that level from 7 attempts — which makes Wetherby something of an outlier, a day when everything clicked.

She raced just yesterday, so she is very much in active training and clearly being kept busy. Whether another Wetherby-style performance is around the corner is the question her the yard will be asking. For now, she is a horse who has proven she can win — and in racing, that counts for more than it might seem.