Schrodinger's Cat

The recent form makes for fascinating reading. Going back through the last six runs — most recent first — you get 8-2-2-1-2-4. That winning run in the middle of the sequence is surrounded by a cluster of placed finishes, which suggests the Redcar victory was no fluke, just the moment everything clicked. Since then, the form has tailed off slightly with that eighth-place finish the most recent run, though it raced just yesterday, so there may well be more to come quickly.

At its typical level of competition, Schrodinger's Cat has found winning harder. In three races at that class, it has yet to get its nose in front — a 0 from 3 record that suggests the horse is perhaps better placed dropping down a level or finding the right conditions, as it did when breaking through at Redcar. That Redcar win was now eight months ago, which means the horse has been knocking on the door without quite repeating the trick — a familiar story for many horses at this stage of their career.

The trainer, Grant Tuer, operates out of Birkby in North Yorkshire and has had a productive season with 26 winners on the board. That is a yard in form, which matters — horses trained by people having a good season tend to be fit, well-prepared, and campaigned smartly. For a three-year-old with seven places from ten races and a trainer clearly on a roll, Schrodinger's Cat looks like a horse still finding its feet and searching for that second breakthrough moment. Whether it arrives soon or not, it remains very much in the mix.