Freddiemissmolli

The recent form tells a similar story. Looking at the last six runs, the best finishes are a fifth and a sixth, with a couple of blank returns mixed in. There's no obvious upward curve here, no sign of a horse just about to turn the corner. Racing at Class 4 level — the kind of competitive mid-tier races where you'd expect a horse of this experience to be picking up wins — Freddiemissmolli has gone zero from three, which suggests the level itself isn't the problem. The horse simply hasn't been able to get its nose in front.

Trainer Barry John Murphy operates out of Caerfyrddin in Carmarthenshire, a small yard that has sent out just one winner this season. That's a modest return, and it means both horse and trainer are searching for the same thing right now. What's worth noting is that Freddiemissmolli raced just yesterday, so the team clearly hasn't given up — the horse is active, fit, and still being pointed at races. Sometimes that persistence is exactly what it takes. But on the evidence so far, a first win remains firmly in the "hoping" column rather than the "expecting" one.