Bragbor

The Fahey yard at Musley Bank in North Yorkshire, run by Richard and Peter Fahey, has sent out 23 winners already this season, so this is a busy and productive operation. Bragbor fits neatly into their profile as a horse who knows his job and does it reliably at the right level. He tends to run in Class 4 races — the bread-and-butter middle tier of British racing — and has won 1 from 3 at that level, a ratio of 33%, or roughly one in three, which suggests he is competitive rather than dominant. He also shows a clear preference for distances around a mile and a furlong to a mile and two furlongs, winning 1 from 3 at those trips. That is a horse with a defined sweet spot, and when the conditions line up — Newcastle, right distance, right class — the results tend to follow.

What makes his situation genuinely interesting right now is the gap since his last win. He took a race at Newcastle on 21 August 2025, nearly eleven months ago, and has not won in six races since, with his recent form reading 7-18-7-4-2-2. Those last two runs — a pair of second-place finishes — suggest he is close to finding the winner's enclosure again rather than drifting away from it. He raced just one day ago, so he is bang in form and clearly being kept busy. The logic writes itself: get him back to Newcastle, over a mile and a furlong or so, and you have a horse who has done it there before and looks to be building back towards his best.