Amicitia

That win came at Navan in September 2025, and it represents the moment everything clicked. Navan is a sharp, turning track in County Meath that suits horses who are nimble and responsive rather than long-striding gallopers, and getting off the mark there is a genuine marker of ability. The question now, returning from a break of around four months, is whether the yard can find that form again.

The trainer behind all of this is J P Murtagh, operating out of Coolaghknock Glebe in County Kildare, and 56 winners in a single season marks this as one of the more productive yards in Irish racing right now. That kind of output means horses are being prepared well and placed carefully — Amicitia is not sitting in some quiet backwater of the sport. When a busy, successful trainer bothers to bring a horse back from a break, it usually means they believe there is more to come. Whether Amicitia can reward that faith is the interesting question she carries back to the track.