Let's Go La Fichad

The recent form makes for interesting reading if you squint at it the right way. That run of 9-3-6-12 tells a mixed story: a brief flicker of something in that third-placed effort, sandwiched between performances that suggest the horse is still figuring things out. Finishing ninth and twelfth in two of those four races is not what you'd call encouraging, but young horses often need time to understand what's being asked of them, and at five years old, Let's Go La Fichad is still relatively early in its career.

What does work in its favour is the stable behind it. Ross O'Sullivan's yard in Kilcullen, Co Kildare has sent out 34 winners already this season — that's a team that clearly knows how to get a horse ready to win. O'Sullivan is not a trainer who struggles to find the right race for the right horse, and the fact that Let's Go La Fichad raced just yesterday means this is very much a horse in active campaigning. Something is being tried, adjusted, learned. The patience hasn't run out yet, and in a yard of that quality, that counts for something.