Bungle Bay

Bungle Bay is a 7-year-old trained by James Evans at his yard in Kinnersley, Worcestershire. Evans has sent out 8 winners already this season, so the operation is ticking along nicely. The regular partnership with jockey Joe Leavy is worth noting too — together they have won 5 of their 25 races, a win rate of 20%, or roughly 1 in every 5 times they team up. That's a meaningful number, well above the horse's overall career average of 14% (7 wins from 49 races, or about 1 in 7).

The other thing that jumps out is how much Bungle Bay likes normal ground conditions. All 7 wins have come on a standard surface — 7 from 32 races in those conditions, winning at a rate of 22%, or just over 1 in 4 times. Get the ground wrong and the results dry up fast, so the conditions on race day matter here more than with most horses.

What makes the current moment interesting is the tension between the recent form and the track record. Bungle Bay hasn't won in its last 6 races, with its most recent victory coming at Wolverhampton back in October 2025. The last six runs read 4-2-2-8-5-10 — some decent placed efforts mixed in, but no winner's enclosure. The horse raced just one day ago and is clearly in active training. Competing mostly at Class 6, the lowest tier of British racing, these are winnable races on paper, and with 7 of those 37 Class 6 outings ending in victory, the ability is clearly still there. A return to Wolverhampton in the right conditions is the obvious route back to the winner's circle.