Forty Years On

The horse made its debut at Doncaster on 30 March 2025 and won. Since then, it has won five of its last six races, with only a single second-place finish breaking an otherwise perfect run of form. Most recently, just this week on 29 August 2026, Forty Years On won at Goodwood — still sharp, still hunting victory. It raced just yesterday, which means the horse is being run regularly and thriving on the work. That kind of back-to-back racing at this level of success is the sign of either a genuinely talented animal or a trainer with genuine faith in his charge.

George Scott, based at Newmarket, is the man responsible. His yard has already sent out 52 winners this season, so Scott knows how to train a good horse. With Forty Years On, he appears to have found one worth training hard. The numbers speak for themselves: five wins from seven races is the sort of record that gets noticed, the kind that makes other trainers and owners sit up. At four years old, the horse is still young enough to improve, old enough to have proven it belongs in serious company. It is active, it is winning, and it is doing both at a rate that separates genuine talent from the everyday runner.