All In You

Picked up at the David Maxwell dispersal sale, he arrived at Warren Greatrex's yard in Upper Lambourn as something of a project, and Greatrex — whose team has sent out 50 winners already this season — clearly spotted something worth investing in. The breakthrough came at Sandown Park on 3 January 2026, but the story really starts at Ascot a few days earlier, where All In You finished a head second in a competitive race over two miles. By his trainer's own admission, he would have won had he jumped the final flight cleanly. That is a painful kind of near-miss — a race essentially taken away from him at the last stride.

What makes Greatrex's decision-making here worth highlighting is that he turned around All In You almost immediately after Ascot and sent him back out at Sandown, on heavy, waterlogged ground, just days later. That is a gamble most trainers would not take. The reason was a practical one: he needed All In You to win to qualify for the William Hill Hurdle at Newbury, a race that requires horses to have earned enough in prize money to get a place in the field. The horse rewarded that boldness in style — travelling smoothly throughout and winning by a length and a half, which in racing terms means he was well on top at the line and had more to give.

His recent form figures of 9-4-blank-1-2-5 tell the story of a horse still finding his level, with that blank suggesting a run where he did not complete the course. But the two most recent runs — a near-miss at Ascot and a comfortable win at Sandown — suggest the pieces are finally clicking into place. He has not raced since that Sandown win six months ago, but with Greatrex's yard in such strong form and a clear target race in mind, All In You looks like a horse with unfinished business.