Dusk Damsel

Trained by J S Moore at Upper Lambourn in Berkshire, she runs for a yard that has been in fine form this season, sending out 17 winners. That matters, because it means Dusk Damsel isn't sitting in a struggling operation waiting for things to click — she's part of a team that clearly knows how to get horses winning. The fact that she raced just yesterday and is actively campaigning suggests the yard believes there's a race to be won with her in the near future.

The recent form tells an interesting story. Those two fourth-place finishes earlier in her career show a horse finding her feet, and the step up to second place more recently hints at a horse improving with each outing. The 14th-place run is worth noting as an outlier — every young horse has a day where things go wrong — but the overall picture is of a horse trending in the right direction. At three years old, she's still learning the job, and first wins often come suddenly for horses at this stage once everything falls into place.