Alice's Influence

Her one win came at Wetherby on 26 April 2026, and it is worth pausing on that because Wetherby is a track that rewards horses who handle its particular demands well. Whether that course suits her or whether it was simply the right day with the right conditions remains to be seen, but it is the kind of detail to file away.

The recent form makes for interesting reading: reading back through her last six races, the sequence goes 1-2-3-4-3-4. In plain terms, she won, then finished second, then third, twice — and has since drifted back to fourth on her last two outings. That is a horse who showed a sharp peak and has been unable to quite recapture it since. She raced just one day ago, so she is clearly in an active campaign, and the team at Pandy will be looking to find the right opportunity to get her back in front.

That team is worth a mention. David Evans has sent out 37 winners from his yard in Monmouthshire this season, which is a healthy, productive operation — not a small yard getting lucky, but a trainer who clearly knows how to place his horses and get results. Interestingly, Alice's Influence has run three times at the level Evans most commonly targets for her, and she has not won any of those. That is not a crisis, but it does suggest the team may need to think creatively about where her next opportunity comes from. A return to Wetherby, where she already has a winner's enclosure visit on her record, would not be a surprise.