Estrange

What makes those numbers even more striking is the level at which they have been achieved. Three of her wins have come in Class 1 races — the very top tier of British racing — and she has won half of all the Class 1 races she has entered. She kicked things off at Goodwood in August 2024, winning a Class 2 there before going straight to Doncaster for a Class 1 victory the following November. Trainer David O'Meara has since admitted they probably got it wrong at one point by running her on fast, dry ground at Yarmouth, where she also had a rough trip through the field. That Doncaster win, she said, put things right. The yard at Upper Helmsley has sent out 101 winners this season alone, so they know a good thing when they have one — and they clearly know what brings the best out of this horse.

She has since won back-to-back Class 1 races at Haydock in the space of five weeks, in May and July 2025, before winning at The Curragh just this week. O'Meara noted after Haydock that she was unusually alert that day — normally she relaxes and waits to be asked, but she was keen and ended up leading for longer than anyone would have liked. She still won. That kind of adaptability is not something you can train into a horse; it is just class. O'Meara made the point himself after York, where he admitted they ran her on ground faster than they would have chosen: they rolled the dice, she delivered. Her reference point for that York win was telling — the only older horses to win the same race in recent years were Enable and Alpinista, both of whom went on to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Europe's greatest flat race.

Jockey Daniel Tudhope has been in the saddle for 4 of her 6 wins from their 7 races together. The partnership looks well set for wherever this horse heads next, with the Yorkshire Oaks — one of the most prestigious races of the summer — firmly on O'Meara's radar.