Flash De Touzaine

The numbers tell a modest but honest story: 3 wins and 6 places from 26 races, which works out to roughly 1 win in every 9 outings. That is not a horse dominating its rivals, but it is a horse that competes consistently and occasionally delivers. The most recent win came at Ballinrobe in May 2025, which means Flash De Touzaine has found the winner's enclosure as recently as this season — no small thing for a horse of this age.

Recent form shows a dip, with finishes of 10th and 6th in a couple of runs, but the last six races also include two fifth-place finishes and a fourth, so the horse has not fallen apart. There are still runs worth watching here.

Richard Deegan has been the regular partner in the saddle, riding Flash De Touzaine seven times and winning once together — a win rate of around 1 in 7, which is actually a touch better than the horse's overall average. That suggests the partnership works reasonably well, even if the victories have been hard to come by.

The trainer is Liz Doyle, who runs a yard out of Crossabeg in County Wexford and has sent out four winners already this season. That is a yard operating with purpose, and Flash De Touzaine's Ballinrobe win earlier this year shows the team is still able to find the right opportunity for this veteran. For a horse who first won at Galway back in October 2022, the fact that wins are still coming nearly three years later says something about how well this horse has been managed. At 11, every race is a bonus — and Flash De Touzaine is still collecting them.