Home And Dry

That one win came at Chelmsford on 23 October 2025, and it was a long time coming. Eight years is a full life in racing, and for most of that career Home And Dry has been finishing in the places without quite getting over the line — the kind of horse that keeps the yard hopeful without ever quite delivering. The recent form tells a similar story: a win sandwiched between a run of mid-field finishes, with a second place thrown in to keep things interesting. Wins 1 in every 12 or 13 races overall, but over longer trips of two miles or more that improves to roughly 1 in 7 — a meaningful difference that suggests stamina is genuinely this horse's friend. Get it out over a proper distance and it becomes a different proposition.

Thomas Faulkner trains the yard out of Devauden in Monmouthshire, and it has been a productive season — 16 winners sent out, which is a solid return for a smaller operation. Faulkner clearly knows how to place a horse to win, and the fact that Home And Dry finally got off the mark at Chelmsford five months ago suggests the team found the right opportunity at the right moment. The challenge now is finding another one. Home And Dry has been competing mainly at Class 5, the entry level of British racing, and has not won there yet in five attempts — all its best efforts, including that solitary win, have come in different company.

Racing again just three days ago, this is a horse still very much in active service, which at eight years old says something about its soundness if nothing else. The search for win number two continues, and on its best days over a long trip, it remains capable of making that search a short one.