Follow Your Heart

The most striking detail in Follow Your Heart's record is what happens at Wolverhampton. Five wins from 17 races there — nearly 1 in every 3 — is the kind of number that makes trainers keep coming back to the same track. Something about the surface, the shape of the course, the way the race tends to unfold: it suits this horse in a way that ordinary tracks simply do not. The last of those Wolverhampton victories came in December 2025, and with the horse still racing — it ran just one day ago — another visit there would have plenty of people interested.

The partnership with jockey Billy Loughnane is another thread worth pulling. Six wins from 15 races together works out to 40%, which is an extraordinary hit rate — winning 2 in every 5 races they contest as a pair. The fact that Billy is also the son of trainer Mark Loughnane adds a family dimension to it: this is a horse that has essentially become a house speciality at Rock Farm in Worcestershire. Mark's yard has already sent out 25 winners this season, so this is not a small operation riding its luck — it is a yard in form, with a horse it knows intimately.

Recent form is a little mixed — a win four runs back, then a 19th last time out — but that single result does not undo a career built on consistency. Follow Your Heart first won back in December 2021 at Kempton Park, and has kept finding the winner's enclosure ever since. At an age when some horses are winding down, this one raced yesterday. Whatever the team at Rock Farm is doing, the horse is still answering the call.