Archivist

The career started with a win at Leicester in June 2025, which set the tone nicely. Since then Archivist has continued to deliver, winning 2 of its last 6 races — including a success at Meydan back in March, which showed this is a horse comfortable travelling and performing in different environments. The recent form reads 20-1-3-5-3-1, meaning it has been placing regularly even on its off days, with that latest win at Meydan coming around three months ago. It raced just yesterday, so it is very much in the thick of things right now.

One of the clearest patterns in Archivist's record is how well it performs on normal ground — standard conditions where the track is neither waterlogged nor baked hard. On that surface it has won 2 of 4 races, a 50% win rate that tells you this horse is in its element when conditions are straightforward. That is the kind of stat that matters when you are trying to predict when a horse will be at its best.

Archivist is trained by Hamad Al Jehani at Newmarket, one of the most competitive training centres in British racing. The yard has sent out 18 winners already this season, which is a healthy total and suggests a well-run operation with horses in good form. Typically running at Class 4 level — a solid mid-tier grade — Archivist has won 1 of 3 races at that level, a rate of 33%, and there is every reason to think it can continue building on that record. A horse that places in three-quarters of its races and wins one in four is not a horse that disappoints — it is one that turns up and competes, almost every single time.