Cancan In The Rain

The real story is at Newmarket. On this track, Cancan In The Rain has a clear edge — two wins from five races there, a win rate of two in five, which is substantially better than its overall record. The most recent of those victories came on 15 August 2025, which means the horse has gone fourteen months without a win. That's a long spell, and the lack of recent success has coincided with a shift in what looks like a decline in form. The horse is typically campaigned at Class 5 level — the lower rungs of British racing — where it has won 3 of 14 races (21%), a respectable win rate at that grade. Against stiffer competition, the wins dry up almost entirely.

One oddity in the record is Joe Fanning, the jockey who has ridden Cancan In The Rain eight times without a single win. Whether that is a pairing that has simply not clicked, or whether Fanning has been aboard during a tougher period of the horse's career, is hard to say from the figures alone. What is clear is that Cancan In The Rain needs to rediscover the form that brought success at Newmarket and made it a competitive proposition at Class 5. The recent blank run and the fourteen-month gap since the last win suggest that window may be closing.