Chairmanfourtimes

The story of how he got there is worth telling. His trainer Adrian Paul Keatley, based at Ryedale in North Yorkshire — a yard that has sent out an impressive 42 winners this season — admitted they had the horse figured out wrong early on. Running him over six furlongs and on slower, wetter ground was simply the wrong plan. Once they dropped him back to five furlongs on faster, drier ground, everything clicked. He won at Pontefract in July 2025, and Keatley was refreshingly candid about it afterwards: they'd been getting the trip and conditions wrong. The Ayr win followed, and it was convincing. Keatley described him as "fairly flat out early on" but noted he stayed the distance really well — the mark of a horse who knows exactly what he's doing over his best trip.

Jockey Oisin McSweeney has been central to that journey. In 5 races together, McSweeney has ridden him to 2 wins — a 40% win rate, which is a remarkable ratio and suggests a real partnership has developed between horse and rider.

What makes Chairmanfourtimes genuinely exciting is what Keatley says about his future. He describes him as a "big, scopey horse" who takes everything in his stride — the kind of physical and mental profile that suggests he will keep improving as he matures. His recent form reads 7-10-1-2-3-1, and the two wins in those last six runs are both the ones that matter most. He raced just one day ago, so there is clearly plenty left in the tank this season, and Keatley has hinted he will be a proper force next year too. This is a horse who looks to have only scratched the surface.