Blue Moon Boy

Trained by Andrew Kinirons out of Newbridge, Co Kildare, Blue Moon Boy is part of a yard that has been in decent form this season, sending out 6 winners. Kinirons is not a name that dominates the headlines, but a trainer who keeps finding winners is a trainer worth watching, and Blue Moon Boy looks like one of his more reliable tools right now.

The horse broke its duck at Galway in August 2025 — a famous, raucous track where winning means something, partly because the atmosphere can rattle horses that aren't mentally tough. Getting off the mark there suggests Blue Moon Boy has a bit of steel about it. What is particularly striking, though, is what has happened in the most recent stretch of form. Reading the last six races from newest to oldest — a win, a non-completion, a second place, then three races back in the field — you can see a horse that has pulled itself out of a rough patch and finished the sequence in style.

That most recent win came at Downpatrick just this week, on 14 June 2026, and it is the sort of form line that demands attention while it is hot. Horses in form tend to stay in form, and Blue Moon Boy is as fresh as it gets — raced just one day ago. Whether the team decide to strike again quickly or give it a short breather, they are holding a card worth playing. Three wins from 13 races at a 23% win rate — roughly 1 in every 4 and a half outings — does not make Blue Moon Boy a superstar, but it makes it exactly the kind of horse that quietly pops up and causes damage when conditions are right. Right now, conditions look very right.