Eastern Peace

The recent form reads 3-9-1-4-9-4, which tells a familiar story: flashes of promise mixed with some disappointing days. That 1 in the middle of the sequence is the Dundalk win, sandwiched between a couple of runs where the horse went missing entirely. It's the kind of record that keeps the yard — sorry, that keeps the yard — interested without getting too excited. Trainer Ross O'Sullivan, based in Kilcullen, Co Kildare, has had a productive season with 35 winners sent out, so he clearly knows how to place a horse to win. The question is whether he can find the right opportunity to get Eastern Peace back to its best.

What's worth watching is the Dundalk angle. Some horses simply take to a particular track — the surface, the shape of the bends, something about the place suits them — and Eastern Peace won there, which is a fact worth remembering next time it lines up on that card. The horse raced just one day ago, so it's clearly in active training and being kept busy. Whether that recent run produced anything encouraging isn't clear from the form figures alone, but a yard sending out 35 winners in a season doesn't run horses for the sake of it. If Eastern Peace gets back to that mile-and-a-quarter-to-mile-and-a-half range, particularly back at Dundalk, it's the kind of horse that could easily surprise at a decent price.