Bambino Fever

The headline moment came at Cheltenham on 12 March 2025, when Bambino Fever won a Class 1 race — the kind of race that sits at the very top of the sport in Britain. Cheltenham is the venue that separates the good horses from the great ones, the track where reputations are made and ambitions are exposed. Winning there, at the highest level, less than three months into a career, told you everything you needed to know about the horse's ability. It is not just winning; it is winning in the right company, at the right place.

Recent form only adds to the picture. The last six runs read 1-1-1-2-1-16, which, working backwards through time, means four wins on the spin before a runner-up finish and then an outlier result that looks increasingly like the exception rather than the rule. The most recent victory came at Fairyhouse in January 2026, so this is a horse still very much in action, still collecting.

Behind all of this is Willie Mullins, the trainer based in Co Carlow who has turned his yard into arguably the most powerful operation in jump racing. Sending out 237 winners in a single season is the kind of number that makes other trainers wince — it works out to roughly one winner every day and a half. When a horse lands in that yard, it is surrounded by the best horses, the best preparation, and a team that knows exactly how to get a horse to a racecourse in the shape of its life. Bambino Fever is clearly thriving in that environment.

Five wins from seven races — winning 5 in every 7 it has contested — is a record that very few horses ever achieve. At six years old, with a Cheltenham Class 1 already on the CV and a trainer operating at peak power, the question is not whether Bambino Fever can win again. The question is how far this horse can go.