Hale End

The partnership with jockey Connor Beasley is the most established in Hale End's career — 17 races together, which is a serious working relationship in anyone's book. They've won twice from those 17 rides (roughly 1 in 9), a modest return, but the sheer number of times they've been put together suggests the team at Michael Dods' yard in Piercebridge, County Durham, clearly believe in the combination. Dods himself has had a productive season, sending out 43 winners — a yard clearly operating with confidence.

The first win came at Hamilton Park in June 2023, and the most recent at Wetherby just two months ago in April 2026 — so this is not a horse living on old glory. It won, and then it came back. Recent form of 7-10-2-2-1-4 reads as a bit mixed at first glance, but work backwards through those numbers and you see two second-place finishes sandwiched around that Wetherby win, with a race just yesterday thrown in for good measure. Hale End is currently active and clearly being kept busy, which is exactly what you'd expect from a horse at this level — it's not a big-occasion animal, it's a workhorse in the best possible sense, turning up, competing hard, and occasionally winning. For a trainer trying to keep the winners ticking over, a horse like this is worth its weight.