Game Management

The numbers paint a picture of a horse that struggles at the top end of racing it encounters. When stepped up to Class 5 races—still well down the ladder—it has managed zero wins from 10 attempts. Tom Eaves, its most frequent jockey, has partnered the horse ten times without a victory. At Newcastle in September 2024, Game Management recorded its first career win, proving it could get the job done, but the follow-up win at Catterick came just over two months later and nothing has landed since. Trained by Lizzie Quinlan at Bolton Mill in Cumbria, the horse runs for a yard that has been modest this season—four winners sent out to date.

Game Management sits in that difficult middle ground of racing: good enough to race regularly, but not quite good enough to win regularly. For a horse now in its fifth year and still campaigned at lower levels, the realistic outlook is as a handicap horse or one suited to claiming races where lighter weights might give it a better chance. Recent form offers little encouragement, but being actively raced just a day ago suggests the the yard still believe there is improvement to find.