Belladinotte

Look at her last six races and you see a horse that has completely turned a corner. After back-to-back seventh-place finishes, she has reeled off four consecutive top-four results, capped by a win at Southwell just this week. That kind of consistent placed form, followed by a victory, is exactly what you want to see — it suggests a horse running within herself and building toward something rather than flashing and fading. Her first career win came at Hexham back in June 2025, and she has now doubled that tally less than a year later. Both wins have come on normal ground conditions, where she has won 2 of her 9 races on that surface (22%) — a noticeably better record than her overall figures, and worth keeping in mind when entries come around.

She runs most of her races at Class 5 level — the bread-and-butter tier of British racing, several rungs below the big televised occasions — and has won 1 of her 10 races at that level. Her usual partner in the saddle is Harry Bannister, who has ridden her in 8 of her 14 races and partnered her to a win, though they are still finding their best together at a rate of roughly 1 in every 8 rides. Behind the scenes, she is trained by Sara Ender at Malton in North Yorkshire — a yard that has sent out 9 winners this season and is clearly in decent nick. A trainer sending out winners at that pace tends to have horses who are fit, well-placed, and ready to run their race.

Belladinotte is not a horse chasing glory at the top level, but she is a seven-year-old who has just won this week, is improving in form, and runs for a yard in form. Right now, she is exactly the kind of horse worth watching.