Hockney

Dascombe's operation has been in fine form this season, sending out 22 winners already, and Hockney has been one of the contributors to that tally. The horse got off the mark at Lingfield Park back in September 2025 and has built steadily from there, adding a win at Kempton Park as recently as three weeks ago. That most recent victory is important context — this isn't a horse coasting on distant memories of better days. It raced just yesterday and is bang in form right now.

Much of that success has come with Pierre-Louis Jamin in the saddle. The French jockey has partnered Hockney in 7 of its 9 races and the two have clicked in a way that makes you sit up and take notice: 3 wins from those 7 rides together works out at roughly 43%, or winning more than 2 in every 5 times they line up as a partnership. That's a serious number. When a jockey and horse find that kind of rhythm, trainers tend to stick with the combination — and it's easy to see why Dascombe has done exactly that.

The overall record of 3 wins and 3 places from 9 races tells a story of a horse that rarely runs badly. Only three of those nine outings have ended without picking up any sort of reward, and the recent sequence — a sixth, a win, two mid-field finishes, then back-to-back wins — suggests a horse that has found its feet and is running in confident form heading into whatever comes next. At four years old, there may well be more improvement to come.