Cressida Wildes

She's trained by Phil McEntee out of Newmarket in Suffolk, a yard that has sent out 16 winners already this season — a solid return that suggests the operation knows how to place its horses well. The interesting wrinkle here is that Grace McEntee, almost certainly a family connection to the trainer, has been the regular rider for five of Cressida Wildes' races without the pair finding the winner's enclosure together yet. That's 0 from 5 as a partnership. It doesn't mean the combination is wrong, but it's a streak that will be on everyone's mind next time they line up.

Her class level tells its own story. The vast majority of her racing has come in Class 4 races — essentially the middle tier of the sport, solid but unspectacular — where she has won just 1 from 14, or roughly 1 in every 14 attempts at that level. That's a tough conversion rate, and it hints at a horse who may be slightly flattered by the company she keeps. Her first career win came at Chelmsford in January 2025, and her most recent was at Wolverhampton in February 2026, four months ago now.

The recent form makes for mixed reading: her last six runs show an eighth, a seventeenth, a non-completion of some kind, a win, and two fifths. That single win in the sequence stands out against a backdrop of ordinary results, and the run just before it — whatever stopped her finishing — adds a question mark. She raced just one day ago, so she is very much an active, current competitor. Whether the next run brings a return to form or more of the same is exactly the kind of question that keeps racing interesting.