Fairly Fulling

The first win came at Newcastle in March 2026, which seemed to flick a switch. Then, just days ago, Fairly Fulling won at Perth — making this a horse in the middle of its best spell yet, having raced as recently as yesterday. Two wins in a handful of months, after years of placing without winning, is the kind of upturn that makes people sit up and pay attention.

What makes it stranger is the class puzzle. Fairly Fulling has run 11 times at Class 5 level — the kind of races designed to give horses exactly like this one a winnable opportunity — and has never won at that level. Zero wins from 11 attempts. Both victories have come elsewhere, which suggests this horse might actually be better suited to slightly different conditions or tracks than the ones it has been most regularly pointed at.

The partnership with jockey Ross Chapman is another curiosity. Chapman has ridden Fairly Fulling 8 times without a win together, yet the horse has won twice in total. That means both victories came with someone else in the saddle — a detail worth noting, though hardly a criticism of Chapman, who keeps getting the call.

Behind all of this is trainer Susan Corbett, operating out of a small yard in Otterburn, Northumberland — not one of the big powerhouse stables, but a team that has sent out 11 winners this season, which is a solid return for an operation of that size. Corbett clearly knows how to place a horse when the moment is right, and pointing Fairly Fulling at Perth this week looks, in hindsight, like exactly the right call. Whether this late-career purple patch has more to give is the interesting question — but right now, this horse is winning races, and that is always worth paying attention to.