Cuban Girl

What's interesting is where she tends to show up best. Over distances between seven furlongs and a mile, she's won 1 from 5 races, which works out to 20% — wins 1 in every 5 at that trip. For context, that's meaningfully better than her overall record across all distances, which sits at just 1 from 11, or roughly 1 in every 11 races. That gap matters. It tells you she has a sweet spot, and when the yard — sorry, when her trainer Brian Toomey — pitches her at the right distance, the chances of something happening go up considerably.

Toomey trains out of Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire and has sent out 10 winners already this season, so this is a yard that knows how to get a horse ready to win. Cuban Girl raced just yesterday, meaning she's in the thick of a busy spell of racing, and her recent form of 2-10-9-7-2-1 is a bit of a rollercoaster — a win, then two seconds, then a rough patch in the middle. The two recent placings are the hopeful sign; the 9th and 10th suggest she can go missing when things don't fall right.

At four years old, she's still learning her trade. She's not a horse who's going to set the world alight — there's no Class 1 or 2 ambition signalled by this profile — but she's the kind of horse that keeps a small yard ticking over, and for punters who follow such things, a horse who finds her right conditions can be very good value indeed. Brighton over seven furlongs to a mile on a good day? That's when Cuban Girl is most worth watching.