Alma Latina

That win came at Pontefract just this week, on 2 June 2026, and it arrived with a quiet confidence that her earlier placed efforts had been pointing toward. She had already shown she could compete — back-to-back placed finishes to open her career — so the win felt less like a breakthrough and more like the logical next step.

She is trained by Ralph Beckett at his yard in Kimpton, Hampshire, and the operation is in fine form right now — 109 winners already on the board this season, which is a remarkable haul. Beckett is one of the most respected trainers in Britain when it comes to developing younger horses, and at three years old, Alma Latina still has plenty of time and room to grow into something more significant. Horses trained at this level with this kind of early consistency tend not to stay in small races for long.