Miss Brazen

Her bread and butter is Class 5 company, where she has won 3 of her 16 races at that level — roughly 1 in every 5, which is a solid return and suggests she is right at home there rather than being squeezed out by better horses. Most of those races are run on normal or fast ground, the kind of conditions that suit a consistent, uncomplicated racer. She got her first win at Redcar back in May 2022 and has kept herself competitive ever since, most recently scoring at Nottingham just four weeks ago — a reminder that she is not fading quietly into the background.

The track to watch her at is Thirsk. She has won 2 of her 6 races there, which sounds modest until you consider how hard it is for any horse to return again and again to the same venue and keep finding the winner's enclosure. That is 1 in every 3 races at Thirsk — significantly better than her overall average — and it marks the track out as somewhere her trainer, Michael and David Easterby, clearly know how to aim her well. The Sheriff Hutton yard has been in fine form this season, sending out 55 winners, so Miss Brazen is part of a genuinely productive operation.

Jockey Joanna Mason has ridden her in 14 of those races together, winning just the once between them — 1 from 14, or about 7%. That single win from so many rides together is a low return on paper, but it also speaks to how long and loyal this partnership has been. Recent form shows a third and a first in her last two completed runs after a rough patch mid-sequence, which makes the current moment feel like a horse back on the up rather than one winding down. Miss Brazen is active, she is winning, and she is doing it at a track she has visited before. Sometimes that is all you need.