Harlington

What makes Harlington interesting is where he wins. He is a course specialist at Wolverhampton, where he has won 3 of his 8 races — a 38% win rate that marks him out as genuinely dangerous on that track. More broadly, he loves normal ground conditions: he has won 6 of his 18 races on standard going, compared to just one win across 19 races when the ground is either faster or wetter. Give him the right surface at the right track, and he becomes a different proposition. Most of his victories have come in Class 6 races, the lower tier of competition, where he has won 5 of 24 starts.

His recent form suggests a horse still searching for another winning race. His last six outings have yielded two third-place finishes but mostly disappointment — a fifth, an eighth, a single-figure placing, and a fifth again. Jockey Taylor Fisher, who has partnered him twice, has yet to strike a winning chord together, though Fisher has found a winner with him once from 13 races. Harlington remains active and on the track, but that five-month gap since his last win at Chelmsford on 21 February is beginning to feel like a drought. At Class 6, on normal ground, back at Wolverhampton perhaps, he may still have another winning race in him — but it is not coming easily right now.