En Or

The overall record tells a modest story: 3 wins and 6 places from 25 races, which works out to winning roughly 1 in every 8 races — a 12% win rate that puts En Or firmly in the honest, reliable bracket rather than the exciting one. The yard itself has been in decent form this season, sending out 13 winners, so it is not as though En Or is operating in a struggling environment. It just tends to find a few too good on the day.

What makes En Or most interesting is where it operates best. On normal ground, it has won 2 of 6 races — that is 1 in 3, a number that stands out sharply against its overall career average and suggests that when conditions are right, this horse is a different animal. Similarly, at distances around a mile and three to a mile and four furlongs, it has won 1 from 4, which points to a horse that wants time to properly warm into a race rather than a short, sharp sprint. Ben Coen brings the best out of it in the saddle — together they have won 2 of their 6 races, a hit rate of 1 in 3 that is notably better than the broader career average.

The wins themselves have come at opposite ends of the calendar — the first at Fairyhouse back in July 2023, and the most recent at Dundalk in December 2024. That last win is now 20 months ago, and the recent form makes sobering reading: in the last six races, En Or has finished ninth, twelfth, third, twelfth, seventh, and tenth. A solitary third place among a string of double-figure finishes. The horse raced just yesterday, so it is clearly being kept active and the team have not given up on finding the right opportunity.

En Or is the kind of horse that rewards patient watching. It is not a winner in waiting so much as a horse with a narrow window — the right ground, the right trip, the right day. When those things align, it has shown it can deliver.