Billy Boi Blue

The standout number in Billy Boi Blue's record is what happens when the ground gets soft underfoot. On wet or muddy ground, this horse has won 3 of its 6 races — a 50% win rate that is genuinely striking. Half the time the conditions suit, it finds a way to win. That kind of affinity for a specific surface tells you something real about how a horse is built and how it runs, and any trainer worth their salt will be watching the weather forecast carefully before deciding when to run it.

Those trainers are David Killahena and Graeme McPherson, a partnership based in Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire. They have sent out 18 winners already this season, so this is a yard that knows what it is doing. The first career win for Billy Boi Blue came on Boxing Day 2022 at Huntingdon, and the most recent came at Ayr in April 2025 — meaning it has gone 15 months and 6 races without winning since. The last six runs read 3rd, two blanks, and three sixth-place finishes, which is a lean spell by any standard.

Regular jockey Nick Slatter has not yet found the combination that unlocks a win, with 0 victories from 5 rides together. That is not necessarily a damning statistic — horses and jockeys sometimes just take time to click — but it is worth noting given the horse's recent struggles. Billy Boi Blue raced just yesterday, so it is firmly in the middle of its season, and with soft ground and the right trip somewhere between a mile and six furlongs and two miles, there is every reason to think another win is closer than the current run of form suggests.