Molinari

What keeps Molinari racing is the partnership with jockey David Nolan, who has ridden the horse 23 times and won on four of those occasions—a 17% win rate that stands sharply above Molinari's overall average. This is the kind of relationship that matters in racing: Nolan clearly gets the best out of the horse, even if that best is not enough very often. Trainer Martin Todhunter's Cumbrian yard has had a decent season with nine winners, but Molinari is not one of them.

The horse typically races in Class 4 company, where it has won just one race from 20 attempts—a 5% success rate in that grade. That statistic reveals the core problem: Molinari is a horse that belongs in races for modest performers but struggles even against them. At nine years old and with such a long losing streak, racing days are probably numbered. Still, the horse continues to run and to place, which means there is still enough left to make it worthwhile to send to post.