Hello Sweety

The horse has won 4 races from 18 outings, a win rate of roughly 1 in every 5 starts, but that headline figure masks what is actually happening. Her real form emerges over two miles or longer, where she has won 4 of 11 races—a 36% win rate that puts her in a completely different class from her overall record. She won six weeks ago at Bangor-on-Dee and has claimed 2 victories in her last 6 races, including a win on her debut at Fakenham on 21 December 2025. That was the moment the penny dropped: this difficult, impatient horse, according to her trainer Stuart Edmunds, has two speeds—standing still and flat out—thrives when given a tight track to work with and distance to cover.

Charlie Hammond, the son-in-law in the Edmunds yard at Stewkley, has ridden her to 3 wins from 9 races together, a 33% win rate that far outstrips her overall statistics. Edmunds has suggested that Hammond's way of riding her works; a wind operation and a change in tactics have transformed a horse people were quick to write off into one that produces results when conditions align. The trainer is under no illusions that life is about to get harder—Hello Sweety is rated 102, which pushes her up the weights—but she clearly backs her to find her way. Right now, she is genuinely active and genuinely interesting: a horse with clear preferences, genuine talent over distance, and a course where she is almost unbeatable.