Caph Star

Trained by Mark Rimell out of Leafield in Oxfordshire, Caph Star got off the mark at Kempton Park back in August 2022, and the yard has continued to place the horse well since. Rimell's team has sent out 6 winners already this season, so this is clearly a stable in decent form and confident enough to keep Caph Star busy. The horse raced just yesterday, which speaks to a training setup that knows when a horse is fit and ready.

The most compelling part of Caph Star's recent story is that win at Nottingham in April 2026 — just two months ago. Recent form reading 3-5-7-3-1-5 shows a horse that has been running into places regularly, with that Nottingham victory sitting right in the middle of a sequence that includes four top-five finishes from six races. Yes, the run immediately after the win was a fifth, but there's no disgrace in that — horses that race as frequently as this one does will always have days when things don't fall right. What matters is the pattern, and the pattern here is a horse that keeps showing up and competing.

For anyone new to racing, the simplest way to think about Caph Star is this: it's not a horse that wins every time it steps out, but it's the kind that earns its keep by consistently finishing close. In a sport where plenty of horses go months without sniffing the prizes, winning 2 from 11 with 5 places is a genuinely solid record for a horse operating at this level.