Auspicious

The first win came at Newcastle on 26 September 2025, and by Tinkler's own admission, it wasn't the deepest race in the calendar. The horse carried a rating of just 19 — extraordinarily low, even by the trainer's own standards, and he's had horses rated as low as 25 before. But here's the thing: a low rating isn't a badge of shame, it's an opportunity. It means the horse gets to race against rivals deemed equally modest, and if you quietly believe your horse is better than that number suggests, you're already ahead of the game. Tinkler did believe it. Auspicious is a homebred, and the trainer knows the family well — he trained the horse's dam, Kilbaha Lady — so when he said the horse had shown more at home than on the track, that wasn't spin. It was patience.

Jockey Alex Jary, speaking to Sky Sports Racing after that Newcastle win, put it plainly: they always thought Auspicious would improve with age, and that day it finally translated from the gallops to the racecourse. That kind of gap between home promise and track performance is more common than people realise, and when it finally clicks, horses can improve quickly.

And improve it has. The most recent win came at Redcar on 7 May 2026 — just three weeks ago — giving Auspicious back-to-back wins across its last six races (form reading 2-1-5-3-7-1 from most recent back). That sequence tells an interesting story: after the early Newcastle win, there was a dip in form before a return to winning ways. The horse raced just yesterday, keeping it firmly in the middle of a busy campaign. Tinkler's yard has hit the ground running this season with 37 winners already sent out, so Auspicious is far from the only string to their bow — but a homebred horse that was once rated 19 and is now winning races is exactly the kind of quiet success story that good yards are built on.