Charmaine

The most interesting thread in Charmaine's profile is what happens when she goes to Kempton Park. Two wins from just four visits there amounts to a 50% win rate at that track — an extraordinary number given she wins roughly 1 in 5 races everywhere else. Kempton has an unusual all-weather loop that suits certain horses in a way no other track quite replicates, and Charmaine is clearly one of them. Her first win came there in September 2024, and she went back and won again on 5 May 2025. Any time her name appears in a Kempton entry, that alone is reason to pay attention.

She also has a genuine preference for wet and muddy ground, winning 2 of her 5 races in those conditions — a 40% win rate that stands well above her overall average. At a distance of a mile and one or two furlongs, she has won 1 from 3, suggesting that middle-distance trip brings out a decent performance. Put all that together — Kempton, soft ground, right distance — and you have a horse with a clear profile of when to take her seriously.

Daniel Muscutt has ridden her in 9 of her 16 races and has won on her twice, a win rate of around 22%, comfortably better than her overall average. That kind of partnership matters. Jockeys learn a horse's quirks over time, and the fact Muscutt keeps coming back suggests the team at James Fanshawe's Newmarket yard trusts that combination. Fanshawe himself has had a productive season — 47 winners already — so Charmaine is part of a yard that knows how to get horses ready to win.

She raced just yesterday and hasn't won in her last six outings, so a return to the winner's enclosure is overdue. But the form figures from those six runs — 4-4-2-6-2-3 — show a horse that keeps finishing close. She hasn't gone missing. She's just waiting for the right day, and if that day comes at Kempton on soft ground, few people will be surprised.