Prince Rasam

His best distance appears to be somewhere between a mile and three furlongs and a mile and four furlongs, where he has won 1 from 6 races — roughly one in every six attempts at that trip. That is not a spectacular number, but it does at least point to where the yard should be focusing their efforts. At the class level he typically runs at — Class 5, which is the lower end of the racing ladder in Britain — he has drawn a complete blank, with no wins from six races at that level, which raises the question of whether he is finding things tough even in company that should theoretically suit him.

He is trained by the father-and-son team of Gary and Josh Moore, based at Lower Beeding in West Sussex. The yard has sent out 99 winners so far this season, which shows they know how to find races for their horses — the challenge is finding the right opportunity for this one. Prince Rasam raced just yesterday, so he is clearly in an active campaign, and at five years old there is still time for him to find his way back to the winner's enclosure. But with 32 months between wins and a recent sequence that has returned more sixes than anything else, he will need things to fall kindly.