A model of frustrating honesty — ten course-and-distance runs without ever finishing in the front two, despite matching the field's best time of 29.60 at her peak. She's been running at A5 recently, so the drop back to A6 is a plus, and her mid-pack finishes there read fine for this level. But a dog who never wins here is a dog who never wins here, and her recent clockings have been well off her best. Thereabouts again without troubling the judge looks the likeliest script.

Battled to a string of placings at A7 earlier in the summer — second, third and fourth in consecutive weeks — but the move up to A6 has found him out a little, with two modest efforts since. His ratings have lived in the low-to-mid 40s all year, the slowest sustained level in this field bar one, and now he draws trap 6, which wins fewer than one race in ten at this grade. Honest as the day is long; just short of the pace and in the wrong box to hide it.

Shares the fastest best time in the field at 29.60, but that figure is ancient history on current evidence — she was beaten out of sight at this grade last week, her last clocking was over a second off that best, and her ratings have fallen from 65 to 37 across her last four runs. Ten course-and-distance starts without a win complete the picture. Trap 3 is a fair box and the engine was clearly there once; nothing about the last month suggests it's coming back this week.

Draws the statistically best box at this grade — trap 2 wins nearly 19% — but that's where the good news ends. Just four career runs, none producing a win or a placing, the slowest best time in the field by a third of a second, and a rating of 42 last week that was among the weakest efforts at the grade. Four runs is too few to write any dog off permanently, and young dogs improve in leaps, but she'd need the leap of the season to trouble this field.