Coloane

Those three wins have come at the lower end of the sport — Class 6, where most of Coloane's career has been spent. Two of those victories have come at that level from 26 attempts, an 8% win rate, but again the placing record tells a fuller story. This is a horse that competes honestly and consistently, the kind that keeps its trainer interested and its backers permanently hopeful.

Roger Fell, based at Nawton in North Yorkshire, has had a productive season with 22 winners sent out from the yard. Coloane fits the profile of a horse that a well-organised northern yard manages carefully — placed in the right races, kept ticking over, and pointed at moments where it can genuinely compete. Mark Winn has been the most regular partner in the saddle, winning once from five rides together, a 20% win rate that suggests the pair have some understanding of what works.

The most recent win is the most telling detail of all. Coloane won at Wolverhampton just this week — on 4 April 2026 — and raced again only yesterday. That is a punishing schedule for any horse, but it also tells you something about the confidence the team has in this horse right now. Look at the recent form: a win, then a fifth, a fourth, a tenth, a second, and a sixth reading back through the last six races. That is not the form of a horse going backwards. The tenth is the one blip in a sequence that otherwise shows a horse regularly finishing in the top half of the field, with a winner and a runner-up among them.

Coloane is not a headline horse. It will not run at a festival or carry big prize money. But it won on Monday and it raced on Tuesday, which says something about its durability — and about a team that knows how to keep a horse at its best.