Beaune

For most of its career, Beaune ran in Class 6 races — the entry-level tier, the kind of race where trainers are just trying to find somewhere their horse can be competitive. In 12 attempts at that level, the win column reads zero. That's a long time spent grinding away without a breakthrough. But zoom in on the last six races and the picture looks completely different: two wins, two second places, and only a couple of poor runs to spoil the sequence. Beaune has essentially transformed from a horse that places a lot into one that actually wins.

Both of those wins have come at Wolverhampton, and that detail matters. Two wins from five races at the same track — winning 2 in every 5 — is the kind of record that makes trainers pencil a venue into the diary the moment entries open. Some horses simply suit a particular track, whether it's the shape of the bends, the surface, or just the trip it usually gets there. Whatever the reason, Wolverhampton clearly suits Beaune. The first win came on 10 April 2026, then another on 21 April — two wins in eleven days. That's not a fluke; that's a horse in form and in the right place.

The other numbers reinforce the picture. Beaune races best over a mile and six furlongs to two miles, winning 2 from 7 at those trips — nearly 1 in 3, which is a very healthy conversion rate. On normal ground conditions, the win rate is 17%, or 2 from 12 — again, far better than the overall career figure suggests. The horse has preferences, and when everything lines up, it delivers.

Bernard Llewellyn trains from a small yard in Fochriw in Mid Glamorgan — not one of the big powerful stables you see dominating the headlines — and has sent out 10 winners this season. That's a solid return for an operation of that size. Beaune, who raced just yesterday and is clearly in the middle of a productive spell, looks like one of his better tools right now.