Blakefell

The win came at Musselburgh on 21 May 2026, and since then Blakefell has continued to run with purpose. Reading the last six races from most recent backwards — 3rd, 6th, 1st, 2nd, 9th, 10th — you can see a horse that has genuinely improved over time. Those two early double-digit finishes look like a horse still learning its job, while the win and the placed efforts that followed suggest it has started to figure things out. The 6th and 3rd in its two most recent outings, including a run just yesterday, show it is still knocking on the door.

The trickier part of Blakefell's record is what happens when the competition steps up. In three races at Class 2 level — among the best races in Britain — it has yet to win, going 0 from 3. That is not a disgrace for a 3-year-old still developing, but it does suggest the horse is more comfortable when the bar is slightly lower, and that Musselburgh win came in that context.

The trainer is Ivan Furtado, who operates out of Wiseton in South Yorkshire and is having a productive season — 43 winners already this term is the kind of output that marks out a yard that knows how to place its horses well and keep them in form. Furtado's team will be looking to build on Blakefell's Musselburgh breakthrough and find races where its recent improvement can be turned into a second career win before long.