Friary Road

The career got off the mark at Listowel in September 2024, and the most significant moment so far came at Navan in September 2025 — a track with a reputation for sorting out genuine horses from the pretenders. That win was 10 months ago now, and the recent form figures of 3-6 after a couple of blanks suggest Friary Road is circling back toward competitive form rather than drifting away from it. Racing just one day ago, this is a horse very much in the thick of things.

The partnership with Shane O'Callaghan is an interesting one to watch. Together they have a win from 6 races — roughly 1 in 6, or about 17% — which is a solid return and suggests the jockey has a decent read of how this horse likes to race. The whole operation is run out of Kill in County Kildare by trainer T M Walsh, a yard that has sent out 6 winners already this season. That is a team producing results, and Friary Road fits the profile of the kind of dependable, placed-in-the-mix horse that keeps a yard's season ticking along between the bigger days. Whether another win is just around the corner is the question — but nothing in this record suggests it would be a surprise.