Fiery Damsel

Her record reads 1, 1, 1, 4 going back through her last four races, meaning three wins or places before a single below-par effort. She broke her duck at Kempton Park in September 2025, then backed it up with another victory at Southwell in October — two different tracks, which suggests she is adaptable rather than reliant on any one set of conditions. The Southwell win came eight months ago, so there will be plenty of interest in whether she can pick up where she left off now that she is back in action, having raced just yesterday.

She is trained by Simon and Ed Crisford at their Newmarket yard — one of the sharpest operations in British racing right now. The Crisfords have sent out 78 winners already this season, which tells you this is not a yard that wastes its time entering horses in races they cannot win. The fact that Fiery Damsel has been kept busy and competitive in that environment says something about how highly the team regard her.

At three years old, she is still developing, and a horse that wins 1 in every 2 races from her first four outings has every right to take on better company as her career progresses. The immediate question is what happens next — whether the long gap since that Southwell win affects her sharpness, or whether she returns to form quickly. Given everything she has shown so far, it would be unwise to bet against her.