Berry Clever

The key to understanding Berry Clever is Kempton Park. She has won all 3 of her career races there, from just 7 attempts at the track — that is a win rate of 43%, which is extraordinary. Most horses never dominate a single venue like this, and the fact that every single one of her victories has come at the same place tells you something important: this is a horse that is genuinely at home there in a way she simply isn't elsewhere. Her last win came at Kempton on 22 October 2025, around five months ago, and that course form alone makes her worth watching whenever she returns.

Wet and muddy ground also suits her particularly well. On soft or heavy ground she has won 3 times from 7 races — again that 43% figure — and given that those wins overlap heavily with her Kempton record, it is fair to say she is at her very best when the track is testing and the conditions are in her favour. On faster, drier ground, that edge disappears.

She is most often partnered by Silvestre De Sousa, a well-respected jockey who has ridden her 8 times, but that partnership has only produced 1 win together. Berry Clever's form speaks for itself though — the horse finds the finish line when the setting is right, regardless of who is in the saddle. She is trained by Chris Dwyer, whose yard has sent out 7 winners this season and clearly knows how to have a horse ready. Berry Clever's recent sequence of 1-6-4-9-2-7 shows a winner tucked in there, and she is now returning from a break of roughly five months.

She competes mostly at Class 5, which is the everyday level of British racing rather than the big occasions, but within that world she has carved out a very specific niche. If she turns up at Kempton on soft ground, pay attention.