Crest Of Stars

The five-year-old got off the mark at Newton Abbot in late October 2025, then followed it up with a second win at Taunton in January 2026. Two wins from eight races sounds modest on paper, but the framing matters: this is a horse that almost never runs a bad race. Finishing out of the places just once from eight attempts tells you this is not a flashy, boom-or-bust type — it turns up, competes, and collects. The recent form reads third, fourth, first, third, first, which is the sequence of a horse that knows its job.

Honeyball's yard at Mosterton in Dorset has been in fine fettle this season, sending out 50 winners — a strong output that suggests the whole operation is firing. When a yard is running hot like that, horses in good form tend to stay in good form, and Crest Of Stars fits that picture. At Class 4 level — the bread-and-butter tier of jump racing — it has won one from three, or roughly a third of its races at that level, which is a healthy clip.

The only slight note of caution is that the last win came about three months ago, in January, and the horse raced just yesterday. It will be worth watching how it bounces out of that run. But with a record this tidy — seven finishes in the first four from eight races — Crest Of Stars is exactly the sort of horse a casual observer can follow without needing a form guide to stay interested. It simply tends to be there or thereabouts at the end.