Hurricane Pat

The six-year-old is trained by Gary and Josh Moore at their yard in Lower Beeding, West Sussex, and it is worth noting just how well that operation is firing right now — 93 winners already this season from a training team that clearly knows how to place a horse to its best advantage. Hurricane Pat is one of their more eye-catching inmates.

What makes this horse genuinely fascinating is what happens when it turns up at Sandown Park. Three wins from four races at the same track is the kind of record that makes racegoers sit up and take notice. Courses have their own quirks — the shape of the track, the way the ground sits, the cambers and turns — and some horses simply click with one venue in a way that is hard to explain but impossible to ignore. Sandown is Hurricane Pat's place. The most recent of those wins came in a Class 1 race there on 6 December 2025 — one of the top races in Britain — which confirms this is not just a horse beating modest competition on a friendly track. It won at the highest level.

Recent form reads 9-2-1-1-1-3 (most recent first), meaning that after finishing ninth last time out — a rare blip — the three runs before that were all victories. Finishing third, then reeling off three wins in a row, is the profile of a horse in the form of its life. The ninth place is the only real question mark, though one off-day in seven races hardly dents the reputation. Hurricane Pat last raced 21 days ago and is currently active, so another run is likely not far away. If it lines up at Sandown again, recent history suggests you would be unwise to look elsewhere first.