Eaton Anne

The two wins are worth a closer look. The first came at Uttoxeter on New Year's Eve 2024, and the second followed a month later at Lingfield Park on 31 January 2025. Two wins in the space of a month suggests a horse that had found its form and its confidence at the same time. Since then, though, the well has run dry — six races without a win, with the most recent run showing a fourth-place finish as the best of that stretch. It is the classic pattern of a horse that clicked briefly and has been searching for that feeling again ever since.

Jockey Sean Bowen has been the regular partner, riding Eaton Anne in 10 of those 15 races and steering home both wins. That gives them a win rate together of 2 from 10 — or 20%, which is genuinely strong. A fifth of their races together have ended in the winner's enclosure, and both victories belong to that partnership. That is not a coincidence; Bowen clearly knows how to get the best from this horse.

Eaton Anne is trained by Olly Murphy at Wilmcote in Warwickshire, and it is worth pausing on Murphy's season — his yard has sent out 138 winners so far, which marks it out as one of the more productive operations in British racing right now. Eaton Anne mostly competes at Class 4 level, one step below the top tier, and has won just 1 of 9 races at that grade. That 11% rate — roughly 1 in every 9 at that level — suggests this is a horse operating right at the edge of where it can be competitive. The places pile up, the wins are harder to come by, but the consistency of being in the frame tells you the horse is trying. Whether another win is around the corner is the question the team will be asking themselves as they study that recent form.