Sharma d'Amour

Most of those races have come at Class 5 level, which is the entry level of British racing, where horses are expected to find things a little easier. Sharma d'Amour has run 5 times at that level without winning once, which tells you this is a horse still searching for the right opportunity rather than one ready to step up to bigger occasions.

Jockey George Bass has been the regular partner, riding the horse in 7 of those 14 races and steering it to its one career win — so there is clearly a working relationship there. When Bass is aboard, the record reads 1 win from 7 rides, or roughly 1 in every 7, which is better than the overall career average but still modest. Trainer Denis Coakley operates out of West Ilsley in Berkshire, a yard that has sent out 10 winners this season, so the stable is clearly capable of getting horses to the winner's enclosure. For Sharma d'Amour, the task now is finding the right race to add a second win to a career that currently has one solitary moment to look back on.