Bound For Glory

Robert Stephens trains the horse at his Caldicot yard in Monmouthshire, where things are ticking along nicely this season with 11 winners sent out already. In recent weeks, Bound For Glory has shown mixed form: a fourth-place finish last time out, then a third before that, a fourth, and a third again stretching back through the last five races. That's the kind of inconsistency you'd expect from a horse that hasn't won since the spring — close enough to know it belongs in the mix, but not quite stringing together the momentum it needs. The horse raced just yesterday, so it's clearly an active runner in the yard's plans, which suggests Stephens thinks there's more to come. Whether that translates into another win or just more near-misses remains to be seen, but Bound For Glory has already proved it can get its head in front, and that's the foundation everything else is built on.