The story starts at Newbury in October 2024, where Centigrade landed its first win, and continues all the way to Southwell just this week — making it a horse very much in the thick of things right now, not one resting on past glories. That kind of consistency across different tracks and different times of year is a sign that this isn't a horse that only thrives in one set of conditions. It travels, it performs, and it wins.
Behind the horse is Ralph Beckett, one of the more quietly reliable trainers in British racing. Based in Kimpton in Hampshire, Beckett's yard has sent out 107 winners already this season — that's not a small operation relying on luck. When a trainer is firing winners at that rate and chooses to keep running a young horse, it's usually because they believe in what they've got. Centigrade fits neatly into a yard that clearly knows how to bring a horse to the races ready to compete.
Three races is a small sample, and it would be wrong to get carried away. But the pattern so far — win, place, win — suggests a horse that doesn't have bad days. At two years old, with the whole of its career still ahead, Centigrade is exactly the kind of horse worth paying attention to before the rest of the world catches on.
| Course | Races | Results | Last visited | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwell Galloping |
1 | 1 win | 18 Jun | 100% |
| Newbury Galloping |
1 | 1 win | 25 Oct | 100% |
| Sandown Park Galloping |
1 | 1 second | 30 Aug | 0% |