Moon Over Clyro

The recent form makes for interesting reading, though. That sequence of 5, a pulled-up or non-completion run, 13, 3, 2, and 11 is all over the place, which tells you this is a horse yet to find any real consistency. The third and second-place finishes hint at ability, but they sit alongside some very ordinary efforts, and that blank in the middle of the sequence raises questions of its own. Raced just yesterday, Moon Over Clyro is as current as it gets — whatever comes next will arrive soon.

Robbie Llewellyn trains the horse from his yard in Wroughton, Wiltshire, and it has been a reasonable season for the stable — 14 winners sent out so far, which is a solid return. Moon Over Clyro has not been one of them. At Class 4, the level where it has spent most of its career, it has run four times without winning once. Class 4 sits in the middle of the racing pyramid — not the very bottom, but far from the top — so this is not a horse being asked to punch above its weight. It simply has not managed to win at a level that, in theory, it should be competitive at. Whether that changes soon is the question worth watching.