Girls Allowed

What makes the situation interesting is who is in her corner. Julia and Shelley Birkett operate out of Newmarket — the heartland of British flat racing, a town where serious trainers go to be taken seriously — and they have sent out 15 winners already this season. That's a yard in form, which means Girls Allowed isn't just being entered and forgotten about. Someone believes there's a race to be won with her.

She raced just yesterday, so she's clearly being kept busy and active. Sometimes with young horses, particularly three-year-olds still maturing, it takes time for the penny to drop. Her form figures don't suggest a horse going backward — there's no dramatic slide from decent finishes into hopeless ones — just a horse that hasn't quite cracked it yet. Whether that changes soon is the question worth watching.