Havana Anna

The broader numbers back up the impression. From just 7 races in her career, Havana Anna has won 3 and finished in the places in 6 of them — a win rate of roughly 43%, which means she wins nearly 1 in every 2 races she enters. That is extraordinary. Most good horses manage somewhere around 1 in 5 or 1 in 6. A horse winning nearly half its races is doing something genuinely special. Her recent form reads 4-1-2-1-1-2, which translates as: rarely out of the first two, and winning more often than not.

Jockey Gavin Ryan is the man most likely to be seen in the saddle, and the partnership is working. Together they have won 3 of their 6 races — that is a 50% win rate, half of all their outings ending in a winner's enclosure. In horse racing terms, that is a dream combination. When you see Ryan's name next to Havana Anna on a racecard, it means something.

Behind all of this is trainer Donnacha Aidan O'Brien, operating out of Ballyroe in County Tipperary. The yard has sent out 33 winners already this season, which tells you this is not a small operation finding occasional luck — it is a training yard that knows exactly what it is doing. Havana Anna fits the profile of a horse that has been placed carefully and brought along with patience. She got off the mark at Naas on 25 June 2025, and has simply not stopped since. Her most recent win at the same track came just five weeks ago.

She raced just yesterday, which means she is very much in the thick of her season right now. At three years old, with a perfect Naas record and a near-50% win rate across all her racing, Havana Anna looks like a horse who has found her level — and is very much in control of it.