Beauforts Storm

The win at Thurles on 28 November 2024 was the horse's most recent taste of victory, and that win now sits 23 months in the past. Before that, the first win came at Cork on 14 July 2023. Two wins across nearly two years is the kind of record that keeps a horse racing — regular enough to justify the effort and expense, but rare enough that the yard must be hoping for a breakthrough streak. Over the last six races, the pattern has been one fourth-place finish, another fourth, a seventh, a ninth, and two races marked absent or void — no wins, no sign of improvement. The horse finishes in the placings often enough (eight places from thirty races) to stay engaged, but victory has become elusive.

Timothy Doyle's yard at Moyne in County Tipperary has sent out only two winners all season, so Beauforts Storm's two career wins are a meaningful part of the stable's output. The horse's regular jockey is Mr D Doyle, who has ridden it to victory twice from twenty races together — a 10 per cent win rate that is slightly better than the horse's overall record. That consistency in the saddle may matter as the horse enters what could be a final phase of its racing life. At seven years old with this record, Beauforts Storm is likely to remain a bottom-tier race horse, but the fact that it was racing yesterday suggests there is still belief, or at least still reason, to keep it in training.