Giorgio M

The more striking detail is this: Giorgio M has run 18 times in Class 4 races — the bread-and-butter level of the sport — and has never won one. Not once. All three career victories have come elsewhere, suggesting this is a horse that either punches above or below its usual level when it finds the right opportunity, rather than grinding out results in the races it is most regularly entered for. The most recent of those wins came at Lingfield Park on 22 December 2025, which means Giorgio M has not visited the winner's enclosure in roughly three months, despite racing as recently as yesterday.

The partnership with Billy Loughnane is one of the more productive threads in this story. The jockey — who shares a surname with trainer Mark Loughnane, based at Rock Farm in Worcestershire — has ridden Giorgio M in 12 of those 32 races and come away with 2 wins, a 17% win rate, or just under one in every six rides together. That is nearly double the horse's overall average, which tells you something about how well this combination works. Mark Loughnane's yard has been in decent form this season, sending out 26 winners, so the operation clearly knows what it is doing.

Recent form reads 4-6-dash-3-6-1 — that dash indicating a run where Giorgio M failed to finish in the placings at all — but the sequence ends, working backwards, with a win, and the last six runs include two placed efforts as well. This is not a horse falling apart; it is one that fills a place frame more often than it wins, which is a perfectly respectable way to make a career. With the right distance, the right day, and Billy Loughnane in the saddle, Giorgio M has shown it can get its head in front — even if convincing it to do so consistently remains the challenge.