Melosa

Her recent form makes for mixed reading. A fourth place in her most recent outing is the standout from the last six races, with a third place earlier in that run and a couple of blank efforts in between. She is not disgracing herself, but she has not yet put together the kind of run that suggests a win is just around the corner. At Class 5 — the entry level of British racing — she has gone winless in all four attempts at that level, which means even in the races designed for horses at the lower end of the pecking order, she has not been able to get her nose in front.

She is trained by Mike Sowersby at his yard in Little Barugh, North Yorkshire, a small operation that has punched well enough to send out six winners already this season. That is a healthy return for a yard of that size, which suggests Sowersby knows how to place his horses and get the best out of them. Whether he can find the right opportunity to get Melosa off the mark remains to be seen, but she is in active training and racing right now, so the story is far from over for this 4-year-old.