Rollthedicebaby

The form figures tell it plainly: a tenth place, then a sixth, then eleventh, then that solitary second, with a tenth just a day ago. This is a horse that has not found his feet in open company. His overall record of one win and two places from five races masks a pattern of struggle after his initial success. At just 20% win rate — winning roughly once every five races — he is still very much learning his trade at this early stage of his career.

What works in his favour is that he is trained by R Hannon at Herridge in Wiltshire, a yard that has already sent out 118 winners this season. That suggests competent horsemanship and a team with the resources to get the best from their runners. But Rollthedicebaby will need to show considerably more than he has in recent weeks if he is to justify the promise of that first win. At two years old, he still has time to develop, but the recent form is decidedly ordinary, and he is being asked to prove he can do better than a horse that wins one race and then struggles to trouble the frame.