Furhaan

Trained by Jim Goldie at Uplawmoor in Lanarkshire, Furhaan is part of a yard that has been in seriously good form — 88 winners this season is a substantial haul and suggests Goldie's team know what they're doing. Whether Furhaan can become a more regular contributor to that tally is the question worth watching.

His best performances have come at a distance of around a mile and three or four furlongs, where he has won 1 from 3 races — roughly one in every three attempts at that trip. That's a much healthier picture than his overall record suggests, and it hints that getting him to the right distance is half the battle. Most of his racing has been at Class 5 level, which is the bread-and-butter tier of the sport — competitive enough, but not the rarefied air of the big occasion. At that level he has won 1 from 4, so even on home turf he is no certainty.

Recent form makes for slightly sobering reading: finishing 7th, 9th, and 11th in his last three runs is a sequence that raises questions about whether the Windsor win sparked something or whether it was a one-off on the right day. He raced just yesterday, so he is very much in the thick of things right now. The team will be hoping the right conditions and the right trip can unlock another performance like the one that got him off the mark.