Walk On Son

Trained by the experienced partnership of Lucinda Russell and Michael Scudamore, Walk On Son is at least in good hands. The yard has sent out 49 winners already this season, so they clearly know how to get a horse to perform — which makes the fact that this one hasn't broken through yet all the more intriguing. Sometimes a horse just needs the right race on the right day, and a team firing at that rate will keep looking for that combination.

The recent form makes for sobering reading: a fourth place is the best Walk On Son has managed in the last six races, sandwiched around a pair of eighth and ninth-place finishes. That said, the horse raced just yesterday, so the yard are clearly still actively searching for the opportunity that unlocks something. At Class 4 level — the mid-tier of British racing, not the top table but not the bottom rung either — Walk On Son has had six chances and not taken any of them, which does raise the question of whether a different approach is needed. A horse that consistently finishes mid-pack without threatening the winner is often one fine-tuning away from a breakthrough, or occasionally one that finds its level and stays there. Only time will tell which story this turns out to be.