Coded Welder

The recent form makes for interesting reading. Those last six races show a pattern of a horse that goes missing mid-sequence before finding its way back to the sharp end. Back-to-back third-place finishes were followed by a brief dip — tenth and thirteenth — but the two most recent runs have produced a second and another second, suggesting Coded Welder is currently running as well as it ever has. A horse finishing second in consecutive races is knocking hard on the door, and given it raced just yesterday, that momentum is live and current.

It runs out of the Navan yard of Cian Collins, a trainer who has sent out 20 winners already this season — a decent-sized haul that speaks to a yard in decent health. The key question now is whether Collins can find the right opportunity to finally turn one of those placed efforts into a win. For a seven-year-old still searching for its first victory, time is not infinite — but the current form says the ability is there.