Trained by Charlie Longsdon at Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, Shan't Wait is part of a team that clearly knows what it is doing — 33 winners sent out this season is a healthy return, so the horses around it are performing. Shan't Wait itself, though, has not won in its last six races, and at the level it typically competes at, which is Class 5 — the bread-and-butter end of British racing — it has gone 0 from 6. That is the level where horses are expected to eventually break through, which makes the blank record harder to explain away.
The recent form does offer a flicker of encouragement. Strip away the two nines — the poor runs at either end of the last six — and you find a sequence of 3-3-3-2, meaning the horse has been finishing second or third in consecutive races. That is a horse knocking on the door without quite getting through it. It raced just yesterday, so fitness is not the question. The question is whether there is a race out there it can actually win, or whether placing is simply what this horse does.
| Course | Races | Results | Last visited | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwell Galloping |
4 | 1 second, 3 other | 14 Dec | 0% |
| Sedgefield Sharp |
2 | 2 thirds | 10 Mar | 0% |
| Newbury Galloping |
1 | 1 other | 15 Jan | 0% |
| Doncaster Galloping |
1 | 1 other | 2 Mar | 0% |
| Huntingdon Galloping |
1 | 1 other | 2 Nov | 0% |
| Market Rasen Sharp |
1 | 1 third | 16 Jan | 0% |
| Chepstow Galloping |
1 | 1 other | 11 Apr | 0% |