Guard Your Dreams

The first career win came at Cheltenham in October 2021, and just seven weeks later the horse was back on the same track winning a Class 1 — one of the top races in Britain. That kind of rapid step up, and the ability to handle it, is not common. Cheltenham is a uniquely demanding track, a wide left-handed loop with a punishing uphill finish that exposes any weakness in fitness or temperament. Guard Your Dreams has run there 12 times, winning twice, and that record — 2 wins from 12 — puts it firmly in the category of horses that genuinely suit the place rather than merely tolerating it.

The bulk of this horse's career has been spent in Class 1 company, which is to say the very top tier of racing. One win from 14 races at that level is a 7% win rate, and while that sounds modest, simply being competitive in those fields for season after season is itself a statement. The more striking recent result came on fast, dry ground — where Guard Your Dreams has won 2 of 7 races, a 29% win rate that is well above its overall average — and specifically at Warwick in February 2026, landing a Class 2. That win, just eight weeks ago, was a reminder that there is still plenty of life in an older horse that has learned exactly what it is doing.

The trainer partnership of Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies, based at Naunton in the Gloucestershire countryside, has had a strong season — 57 winners sent out already, which is a yard operating with real momentum. Sam Twiston-Davies has ridden Guard Your Dreams in 18 of its 23 races and won 3 of them, a 17% win rate that mirrors the horse's overall record almost exactly — a pairing that knows each other well. With a race just one day ago, this is a horse still firmly in training, still turning up, still occasionally making it count.