Mountain Cat

The first win came at Doncaster on 2nd May, and before the month was out, Mountain Cat had backed it up with another victory at Wolverhampton just this week. That second win came only yesterday, which tells you this is a horse very much in the middle of a hot streak rather than one looking back on past glories. Going two from two is the kind of start that gets people talking — it means every time this horse has stepped onto a racecourse, it has come home in front.

Behind the horse is Saeed bin Suroor, one of the most respected trainers in British racing, operating out of Newmarket in Suffolk. His yard has already sent out 15 winners this season alone, which underlines that this isn't a one-horse operation stumbling into form — it's a well-oiled machine that knows how to get horses ready to perform. When a yard like this has a horse with a clean two-from-two record, it tends to mean they like what they're seeing at home as much as on the track.

Two races is a small sample, of course, and it would be wrong to get too far ahead of ourselves. But a perfect record is a perfect record, and the speed with which Mountain Cat has followed up suggests this is a horse in rude health and full confidence. The next run will tell us a great deal more about just how good this three-year-old might be.