Sheamus Seimhiu

What makes this return worth watching, if only out of curiosity, is the five-month absence. Horses come back from breaks for all sorts of reasons — a minor setback, a change of plan, or simply a trainer deciding to press the reset button. Chris Timmons has kept the yard ticking over this season with five winners, so there is clearly some ability in the camp. Whether Sheamus Seimhiu is about to benefit from fresh legs and a new approach, or whether the break changes nothing at all, is genuinely hard to say on the evidence available.

The honest read is that this is a horse that has not shown much yet. But horses do sometimes turn a corner, and a long spell away from racing occasionally marks the point where things click. This is one to watch with cautious interest rather than expectation.