Just An Artist

That Perth win gives the team something to work with. N W Alexander, who trains Just An Artist from a yard in Leslie, Fife, has had a productive season with 19 winners sent out, so the operation clearly knows what it is doing. Bruce Lynn is the regular partner in the saddle, having ridden the horse in 8 of its 9 races, and together they have that 1 win to show for it — a win rate of about 1 in every 8 rides. Most of the horse's racing has come at Class 4 level, where it has won 1 from 6 attempts, or roughly 1 in 6, which is a respectable conversion rate if it can rediscover the form that got it there.

The immediate question is what happens next. Just An Artist raced only yesterday, so it is bang in the middle of an active campaign, and with a trainer who is firing in winners this season, another tilt at glory cannot be far away. Whether it can recapture that October feeling at Perth — and whether it might return to a track where it has already shown it can win — will be the thing to watch.