Belladinotte

The first career victory came at Hexham on 22 June 2025, a moment that had been a long time coming across 15 races without a win. That kind of patience from Sara Ender's yard in Malton, North Yorkshire, says something. Ender is a trainer who has sent out 9 winners this season, a solid return that reflects a stable operating with quiet efficiency rather than headline noise. Hexham is a tight, undulating track in Northumberland that suits horses with a bit of grit, and Belladinotte clearly has that.

What happened next is what lifts this profile above the ordinary. Just a few weeks later, Belladinotte won again at Uttoxeter — this week, as recently as 15 July 2026. Two wins in roughly three weeks, after a career that had yielded just one victory in its first 15 attempts. Recent form reading 1-6-4-1 in the last four completed runs, with two wins sandwiching a couple of placed efforts, is the kind of sequence that suggests a horse suddenly clicking into something. Whether that is confidence, fitness, or simply finding the right opportunities is hard to say, but the results are there.

The partnership with jockey Harry Bannister is worth noting. Together they have won 2 of their 10 races — 20%, or 1 in every 5 — which is a meaningfully better return than Belladinotte's overall record. Bannister clearly understands how to get the best from this horse. The bulk of Belladinotte's career has been spent at Class 5 level, the entry-level tier of British racing, where she has won just 1 from 10 races in that grade — a 10% return that underlines how competitive even the lower tiers can be. But form is form, and right now Belladinotte is very much in form.