Tedworth

What makes his recent form genuinely interesting is the trajectory. Cast your eye back over his last six races — fourth, sixth, fourth, eleventh, first, fourth — and you can see a horse that was quietly finding its feet before that Tramore breakthrough. The eleventh-place finish in there looks like a blip rather than a pattern, because either side of it he was posting respectable fourth-place efforts, and then he went and won. That is a horse that was getting sharper, not fading.

John Shinnick has been in the saddle for six of Tedworth's races together and is still waiting for a win between them, but that barren run looks less damning when you consider how rarely Tedworth has won for anyone. With the horse raced just one day ago and clearly in an active campaign, the yard will be hoping Tramore was the turning point rather than a one-off. For a yard operating on slim margins this season, keeping Tedworth in this kind of form is exactly the sort of project that matters.