Havana Club

Those Bath wins tell a more specific story still. Havana Club's first career win came at Bath on 14 May 2025, and the horse returned to the same track this week — just one day ago — to win again on 15 July 2026. That sort of course form is not coincidence; some horses simply suit the tight, undulating layout at Bath in a way that is hard to explain but impossible to ignore once you've seen it on a racecard.

Dry ground is the other key ingredient. On fast, firm summer turf, Havana Club has won 2 of 5 races — 40%, which is a remarkable conversion rate for any horse at any level. That number jumps off the page when you consider the overall record is closer to 1 win in every 9 races. When the sun has baked the ground hard and Bath is on the schedule, this horse becomes a different proposition entirely.

Finley Marsh rides Havana Club most often, partnering the horse in 11 of its 28 races for 1 win together — a modest ratio on paper, but the pair's connection is clearly one the yard at Westbury-On-Severn keeps coming back to. Trainer Adrian Wintle has had a productive season, sending out 30 winners from his Gloucestershire base, which suggests a well-run operation with horses in form. Havana Club competes almost exclusively at Class 6, the entry level of British racing, and has won 2 of 19 races at that level — about 1 in every 9 or 10 — which is a modest but honest record for a horse operating at the bottom of the ladder.

The recent form figures of 1-4-6-2-4-8 show a horse that blows hot and cold, capable of winning and finishing out of the picture within the same sequence. But cross-reference those results with track and ground, and the pattern becomes clear: when Bath is dry, Havana Club shows up.