Let Me Go Boys

The recent run of form makes for sobering reading: six races without a win, and a best finish of third in that spell. The horse raced just yesterday, so it is clearly still active and being kept busy, which suggests the team around it believe there is a performance waiting to come. That optimism is not without foundation — a yard that has already sent out 52 winners this season clearly knows how to place a horse to its best advantage.

Most of Let Me Go Boys' racing has come at Class 5 level, which represents the entry-level tier of British racing — the kind of races designed to give horses like this a realistic chance of winning. The fact that it has drawn a blank in five races at that level is a concern, though not unusual for a horse still finding its feet at six. Jonjo O'Neill Jr, one of the most in-demand young jockeys in the country, has been in the saddle for five of those races without managing to coax a win out of the horse. That combination — a strong jockey, an experienced yard — suggests the horse has been given every opportunity. Whether it can finally deliver remains to be seen.