Ludlow

Her most encouraging piece of form is a third-place finish here at Ludlow 52 days ago, which at least shows she can handle this course and has finished in the places recently. Before that, though, she was well beaten in her two previous Ludlow and Hereford runs. She sits third in the market at 13.5 but would need a significant step forward to challenge First Candidate.

Second in the market at 10.5 and the most consistent of the horses trying to upset the favourite, with a top-four finish in every one of her four races. She has never won, but she has never been far away either, and her two most recent fourths came within six and a half lengths of the winner. The gap between her and First Candidate in the market is large, but she is the most credible challenger on show.

She has been off the track for 144 days — the longest absence of any horse in today's field — and returns with just two races behind her, both of which ended in mid-field finishes. There is simply not enough form to suggest she can trouble the front runners after such a long break.

Three races in and still searching for a first win or placed finish, with a consistent pattern of finishing fifth, eighth, and fifth. She has had nearly 500 days between two of those runs, so there is not much of a recent rhythm to point to. Hard to make a case for her against the favourite on current evidence.