"I believe this race runs to form, and the best horse usually wins it.
Groovy, who has been on the lead in all nine of his career starts, ran to form yesterday.
In fact, by easily dispatching five rivals, Albert the Great was the only older horse to run to form in a wild afternoon of nationally televised racing.
True to venal form, we yearn for equine conversation primarily to learn of any latent problem that would explain – or better still, enable us to predict – any failure to run to form.
But if just one of them not only runs to form, but improves as well, it is going to be a much more formidable opponent than its starting odds might suggest.
It had hardly seemed likely that this year's Davis Cup finale would be decided by a match between Fernando Verdasco and Jose Acasuso, yet this was a final that rarely ran to form, save for David Nalbandian's opening win against David Ferrer.
"I want to go there and run to form and for my fastest race of the year to be at Hampden," she told BBC Scotland.
The first part of the race ran to form, with Rosberg narrowly ahead of Hamilton as the two Mercedes drove off into a race of their own.
And for its first half the grand prix ran to form, Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton running away with it at the front, as the silver cars have at every race so far this season.
The 14 contests still in doubt will determine which party tips into majority government or starts with the inside-running to form minority government.
The boat was running true to form, when in the middle of the race both boats were becalmed.
