Cajetan

Trained by Ruth Carr at her yard in Stillington, North Yorkshire — a yard that has sent out 62 winners already this season, so this is no small operation — Cajetan has built a career record of 3 wins and 5 places from 20 races. That works out at roughly 1 win in every 7 races overall, which is a solid if unspectacular return. The horse tends to compete at Class 4 level, the fourth tier of British racing, and has won 3 of 9 races at that grade — one in every three, which is genuinely impressive and suggests it belongs there rather than drifting in from a higher level.

Normal ground suits Cajetan well, with 2 wins from 8 races on standard conditions — a 25% win rate, or one in four. That is a meaningful pattern and worth noting for anyone following the horse through the summer months.

The most recent win came at Newcastle on 21 December 2024, now sixteen months ago, and the last six races have all been placed finishes at best — the sequence reads 10-10-3-15-9-10, meaning the third place is the only bright spot in a run that otherwise tells a story of mid-pack finishes. Regular partner Edward Greatrex has ridden the horse in five of those races, winning once together, which is a win rate of 1 in 5 — perfectly respectable, though the partnership has not found its best recently.

Cajetan last raced twenty days ago and is clearly still being aimed at targets. Whether the yard takes it back to Newcastle — where the numbers say everything clicks — will be the most interesting question surrounding this horse over the coming months.