Fiveonefive

Those wins came on 2 July 2023, 30 June 2024, and 29 June 2025 — almost exactly a year apart each time, which gives the whole thing an almost ceremonial quality. Trained by Cian Collins out of Navan in County Meath, Fiveonefive clearly makes the trip across the Irish Sea for one purpose, and keeps delivering. Collins has sent out 20 winners this season, so this is a yard that knows what it is doing, and part of what it is doing is pointing this horse at Cartmel every summer with impressive results.

All three of those Cartmel victories came in one of the better-quality races on the calendar — Class 2, which sits near the top of British racing. Across all seven races at that level, Fiveonefive has won 3, a win rate of 43%. That is almost 1 in every 2 attempts, which is a remarkable number at that tier of competition and tells you this horse genuinely belongs in those fields rather than just making up the numbers.

The overall career picture — 5 wins and 12 places from 37 races, winning roughly 1 in every 7 outings — is more modest, but that is partly the nature of a horse that travels widely and races regularly. A couple of those results also stand out: slightly wet or soft ground suits it well, with 2 wins from 8 races on those surfaces, a 25% win rate. Jordan Gainford, who rides it most often, has won 2 of their 13 races together.

The recent form shows a horse that has not won in its last 6 races, but the most recent of those came just one day ago, and the win before that was the Cartmel success on 29 June 2025. At eight years old and with a hat-trick at one of British racing's most characterful venues already in the bag, Fiveonefive is the kind of horse a knowledgeable friend would quietly circle on the card every time Cartmel comes around in late June.