Footstepstoglory

That sole second place is the one flicker of promise to hold onto. It shows Footstepstoglory can mix it with the right field on the right day — the challenge is making that happen more consistently. With the most recent run coming just yesterday, the horse is clearly still being kept busy, which suggests David Harry Kelly and his yard in Rathvin, Co Tipperary haven't given up on finding the right opportunity.

Kelly himself has had a productive season, sending out 13 winners, so the horses around Footstepstoglory in that yard are clearly capable of winning races. Whether this particular horse can follow suit remains the open question. For now, it's a horse that takes up space on the racecard without troubling the judge — but every winner was once winless, and the team keep running it, which counts for something.