Have You A Minute

The story really belongs to Wolverhampton. Two of those three wins have come at the Midlands all-weather track, out of 10 visits — that is 1 win in every 5 races there, well above the horse's overall average. The first came on Boxing Day 2023, which is a memorable occasion to break your duck, and the most recent was as late as October 2025. Wolverhampton seems to suit this horse in a way that other tracks simply do not, and when normal conditions are underfoot — not wet, not firm, just standard racing ground — the record improves sharply: 3 wins from 15 races, meaning it wins 1 in 5 on its preferred surface. That is a horse that knows what it likes.

The distance picture tells a similar story. Races run over a mile and a furlong to a mile and two furlongs have produced all three wins, from 17 attempts — a win rate of roughly 1 in 6. Push it beyond that range or drop it shorter and it stops winning entirely. Tom Tate, training out of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, has sent out 4 winners this season and clearly understands where this horse belongs: almost all of its career has come at Class 6 level, the entry-level tier of British racing, and that is where all three victories have come.

The one puzzle is the jockey combination. Tom Eaves has ridden Have You A Minute 9 times without a win together — a third of its entire career. The horse's recent form reads 9-11-6-5-1-2, so a win last October and a second place before that suggest it still has something to offer. It raced just yesterday, so fitness is not a question. Whether it can find another Wolverhampton moment is probably the most interesting question around this quietly stubborn five-year-old.