Handmedownastar

The numbers are genuinely eye-catching: two wins and four places from five races works out to a 40% win rate, which is exceptional. More revealing is the recent form — it has won two of its last five outings. That's not a horse clinging to one old victory; it's a horse performing now. Its first win came at Fontwell Park on 24 May this year, and the second arrived over three months later at Kelso. The consistency matters. Between those bookends of success lie a fifth place, a second, and a third, showing that even in defeat it is competitive enough to finish close to the front.

The real test will be whether this momentum holds. A horse that wins roughly 2 in every 5 races is already operating at a level most never reach, but the question for Scholfield's team is whether Handmedownastar can sustain it or if recent form has caught a purple patch that will fade. For now, though, there is a genuinely interesting horse here — one that wins often enough to matter and has proved it can do so at different tracks.