Alice's Influence

That changed at Wetherby on 26 April 2026, when she got off the mark for the first time. It's worth noting that her recent form reads 3-2-1 in her last three runs — she has been travelling in entirely the right direction, steadily climbing up the finishing order race by race. Before that purple patch, a ninth-place finish suggested she was still working things out, which makes the subsequent improvement all the more encouraging. She raced just yesterday, so she is firmly in the thick of an active campaign right now.

She is trained by David Evans, whose yard is tucked away in Pandy in Monmouthshire. Evans is having a productive season — 37 winners already — which suggests a well-run operation with horses in form. A trainer sending out that volume of winners isn't doing so by accident, and having Alice's Influence in such a yard during a winning streak is no bad thing for her prospects. At Class 5 level she is still searching for that elusive win in 3 attempts, but given her recent upward curve, it may only be a matter of time before she translates her current form into results at that grade too.