Aegina

That sole victory came at Dundalk on 31 October 2025, and it's worth noting that Dundalk is an all-weather track that runs through the Irish winter — winning there takes a horse that handles an unusual, tight circuit under artificial lighting. The fact that Aegina got the job done there suggests a degree of adaptability that not every young horse has.

Aegina is trained by Donnacha Aidan O'Brien at Ballyroe in County Tipperary, a yard that has sent out 30 winners this season alone. That level of output signals a busy, well-organised operation, and horses that come from yards like this tend to be well-prepared when they return from a break. That break is the key detail here: Aegina has not raced for around 149 days — roughly four months — so this profile is essentially a reintroduction. Whether the time off was routine freshening up or something more specific, we simply don't know, but the record before the break was solid enough to keep interest high.