Best Love
Best Love is a two-year-old that has finally found the winner's enclosure after a shaky start to racing life. The horse won at Navan just this week, on September 2nd, marking its first victory from five career races. It is still very much learning the trade — with one win and two placed finishes from those five outings, it wins roughly one in every five races, which is respectable form for a young horse still finding its feet.Based on TrackLab's analysis
Owner
Paul Fitzpatrick Racing Partners
📊 Key numbers
Career totals for this horse
🔍 Full analysis
Our model's view, based on this horse's career and recent runs
The recent form tells a story of a horse beginning to settle. Over the last five runs, Best Love finished first at Navan, then seventh, fourth, tenth, and unplaced — the win came most recently, which suggests the horse may be starting to put things together. At this early stage of a two-year-old's career, consistency matters less than the direction of travel, and that debut victory is an encouraging sign.
Best Love is trained by Eddie and Patrick Harty at their Curragh yard in Kildare, which has been in good form this season, sending out sixteen winners already. For a young horse just breaking through, being in a yard with that kind of record and the expertise to back it up is a positive environment for learning and improvement.
⚡ Strengths and risks
What helps this horse and what to watch out for
✓ What works in their favour
✔ Excellent record on good ground: 1 wins from 3 starts (33%)
⚠ What to watch out for
⚠ Struggles on RH Galloping tracks: 0 wins from 5 starts
🎯 Where this horse runs best
Results split by ground, distance, race level and track shape
🌧 Ground
Good (a little give)
Loves
Yielding to soft (damp)
Unknown
Good to firm (fairly firm)
Unknown
🏟 Track shape
Left-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, long straights
Avoids
📅 Recent runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
29 Sep
6th
Cork
5f – 6½f · Yielding_To_Soft · 7 runners
2 Sep
🏆 Won
Navan
5f – 6½f · Good · 11 runners
14 Aug
7th
Cork
5f – 6½f · Good · 16 runners
24 Jul
4th
Cork
5f – 6½f · Good_To_Firm · 10 runners
19 Jun
DNF
Down Royal
5f – 6½f · Soft · 8 runners
4 May
10th
The Curragh
5f – 6½f · Good · 13 runners
🏇 Jockeys
Every jockey who has ridden this horse, most rides first
🏟 Course record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last run | Win rate |
|---|
| Cork Galloping |
3 |
3 other |
29 Sep |
0% |
| Navan Galloping |
1 |
1 win |
2 Sep |
100% |
| Down Royal Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
19 Jun |
0% |
| The Curragh Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
4 May |
0% |