Buck Barrow

That one win came at Ffos Las in Wales on 22 June 2025, over a distance of around a mile and three to four furlongs — middle distances where Buck Barrow has shown his best form, winning 1 from 8 races at that trip (roughly 1 in 8, his best record at any distance). Ffos Las is a track that suits certain horses down to the ground, and on that summer afternoon, everything clicked. The problem is that was ten months ago, and the six races since have produced nothing better than a second place and a third, with two tenth-place finishes bookending that spell. The most recent form reads 10-6-10-3-2-8, which is patchy at best.

His regular partner in the saddle is Finley Marsh, who has ridden him five times without a win between them. That's not necessarily a knock on either horse or jockey — sometimes a combination just hasn't found its moment yet — but it's a partnership still waiting for its breakthrough together. The training operation behind Buck Barrow is Adrian Wintle's yard in Westbury-On-Severn, Gloucestershire, a stable that has been in decent nick this season with 28 winners on the board. That suggests the team knows what it's doing; Buck Barrow just hasn't been the one carrying the flag.

He raced as recently as yesterday, which means he is very much still in the game. The question is whether there's another Ffos Las moment in him — a rare alignment of the right track, the right distance, and the right day. He's shown he can do it once. Whether he can do it again is what keeps the yard — the yard, the jockey, the owner — coming back for more.