Pink Walls

The level Pink Walls competes at is Class 6, the entry level of British racing, where the horses are generally slower and the races are designed to give animals exactly like this one a fighting chance. And yet, across five races at that level, the record remains blank. Winning zero from five at the easiest tier of the sport is the kind of stat that makes you wonder what the next step forward actually looks like.

Michael Mullineaux trains Pink Walls from a yard in Alpraham, Cheshire, and the operation is clearly capable — four winners on the board already this season shows the team knows how to get a horse ready to win. That makes Pink Walls something of a puzzle, because it is not as though the support around the horse is lacking. Raced just yesterday, so Pink Walls is very much still in action, still being aimed at races, still being given opportunities. Whether one of those opportunities finally produces a different result is the question that twelve races have so far refused to answer.