Tennesse Boy

Trained by Robert Tyner at Kinsale in County Cork, Tennessee Boy runs for a yard that has been in good form this season, sending out fifteen winners so far. That context makes Tennessee Boy's record all the more striking—he is very much the exception in a stable that knows how to get horses into the winner's enclosure. At seven years old, he is entering the later stages of a career that, by conventional standards, would have delivered at least a race or two by now. The pattern of his recent form—a fourth, two blanks, a twelfth, a second, and an eleventh—tells the story of a horse who can run respectably on his day but lacks the consistency or the killer touch needed to turn those efforts into victories.