Harvey

The overall record reads one win and two places from four races, which works out at winning 1 in every 4 races he has entered. That is a decent return, and the recent form makes it look even more promising — his last four runs read 1-3-9 (the dash indicating a race before he had recorded a finishing position), suggesting a horse who has been building steadily towards that Doncaster win rather than arriving at it by accident. The third place before the victory shows he was already knocking on the door.

Behind Harvey stands Ian Williams, whose yard at Alvechurch in Worcestershire has been in seriously productive form — 92 winners already this season is a big number, and it tells you this is a well-run operation with horses ready to perform. When a trainer is firing in winners at that rate, it tends to mean the horses in the yard are fit, well-prepared, and placed in the right races. Harvey looks like one of the yard's success stories in the making.