Balzac

That debut win came at Kempton Park on 1 April 2026, trained by Jane Chapple-Hyam out of her yard in Dalham, Suffolk. Chapple-Hyam is in strong form this season, having already sent out 25 winners, and Balzac looks like exactly the kind of horse a yard in that rhythm produces — confident, well-prepared, and ready to run on day one. Winning first time out is rarer than it sounds; plenty of young horses need a run or two just to figure out what racing is. Balzac skipped that learning curve entirely.

With only two races to go on, there is still a lot to discover about where this horse sits in the pecking order. But a 100% win rate from a single try, a third place in the other, and a trainer firing on all cylinders this season — it is a tidy little profile for a three-year-old just getting started.