Alice De Clare

Her recent run of form tells an interesting story. Go back six races and you see two sevenths bookending a purple patch in the middle — 1, 1, 2, 4 — which means she won back-to-back races and filled the frame in two of the next three as well. Her first win came at Great Yarmouth at the end of April 2026, and she followed it up with another victory at Leicester in late May. Two wins in the space of a month suggests a horse that had found its confidence and was building momentum. She raced just yesterday, so we'll soon know whether that momentum has carried on.

One of the clearest patterns in her record is how much she likes fast, dry ground. On those conditions she has won 2 of her 3 races — that's 67%, or roughly two in every three attempts. For context, most horses don't win anything close to that proportion of their races at any stage of their career. When the sun has been out and the ground is quick, Alice De Clare has been formidable. The other piece of the puzzle is distance: at a mile and three furlongs to a mile and four furlongs, she's also won 2 from 3. That middle-distance range — long enough to reward stamina, short enough to need a decent turn of foot — appears to suit her perfectly.

She's trained by James Fanshawe at Newmarket, one of the great centres of British racing. Fanshawe's yard has sent out 44 winners already this season, which tells you this is a busy, well-run operation used to producing horses in form. Alice De Clare sits within a stable that clearly knows how to prepare a horse to win. With the right conditions — dry ground and a trip around a mile and a half — she's already shown she can deliver.