Allegresse

Both of those wins have come at Kempton Park, and the more recent of the two matters. On 18 September 2025, Allegresse won a Class 2 race there — one of the top tiers of competition in British racing. That is not a soft touch. Class 2 fields are full of horses that know what they are doing, and winning one as a three-year-old signals genuine quality rather than a horse padding its record against weak opposition. The first win came exactly a month earlier, also at Kempton, suggesting this horse has genuinely figured out that track — the tight, all-weather circuit seems to suit everything about how it runs.

The recent form string tells a mixed story: the last six results read 16-9-4-7-1-1, meaning two wins followed by four runs where things have not clicked in the same way. That kind of pattern is worth watching rather than worrying about — horses that have demonstrated they can win at a high level do not suddenly forget how. More likely, conditions or distances in those later runs have not played to Allegresse's strengths.

Behind this horse is Andrew Balding's yard at Kingsclere in Hampshire — one of the most productive operations in Britain this season, having sent out 202 winners already. When a stable of that size and quality keeps running a horse, it is because they believe there is more to come. For a three-year-old with a Class 2 win already on its record and a clear affinity for a distance and a track, that belief seems well-founded.