Double Time

That last win came at Kempton Park on 13 October 2025, which means Double Time has now gone a full year without returning to the winner's enclosure. The horse's recent form tells the story: in its last six races it has finished 8th, 11th, 12th, 7th, 6th and 4th — a dip that suggests either changing conditions or age catching up. Yet Double Time raced just a day ago, so it is still active and still trying. Tim Vaughan's Aberthin yard, based in the Vale of Glamorgan, has found a horse worth running regularly. George Rooke rides it most often, though their partnership has yielded only 2 wins from 14 races together, a 14% return that sits below the horse's overall average.

What makes Double Time interesting is not any particular brilliance, but rather the kind of steady, unglamorous racing that keeps smaller yards ticking over. It is the sort of horse that pays for itself on wet days in October or November, when the ground it loves comes around again. Whether the next win will come soon is another question — but in a long career, Double Time has at least learned what it needs to succeed.