Comic Strip

Those last six races read 5-7-3-2-1-1 going backwards in time, which means Comic Strip won back-to-back before hitting a rougher patch. The wins came at Southwell in late October 2025 and then at Wolverhampton on 1 December — two of the all-weather tracks that keep British racing ticking through the winter. Back-to-back wins at that point of the season suggested a horse finding its feet and growing in confidence. Since then, the results have dipped — a second, a third, and then finishes of seventh and fifth — which is the kind of up-and-down progress you'd expect from a young horse still figuring things out.

The class level is worth understanding. Comic Strip has spent most of its career in Class 4 races — the middle tier of British racing, a step below the serious prize money but very much a competitive environment. At that level, the record is striking: 2 wins from just 3 races, a win rate of 67%, or roughly 2 in every 3 attempts. That is an exceptional return and suggests this is genuinely the right grade for Comic Strip right now — a horse that belongs at this level rather than one simply being dropped down to inflate its numbers.

The trainer behind all of this is the Newmarket-based Simon and Ed Crisford yard, one of the more productive operations in British racing. Seventy-nine winners in a single season is a serious output — that is a yard that knows how to get horses ready to run and ready to win. Being trained out of Newmarket, the historic home of British flat racing, means Comic Strip is surrounded by serious professionals.

With a race just yesterday and form that has wobbled since those winter wins, the question now is whether Comic Strip can recapture that back-to-back winning momentum. The Class 4 record alone gives real reason to think another win is coming.