Jay Pee M

The first win came at Cork on 17 January 2025, a nice moment for a local yard — O'Brien trains just down the road in Carrigtwohill, so racing at Cork must feel close to a home fixture. The second win arrived at Navan on 22 March 2025, suggesting Jay Pee M is comfortable travelling and performing on different tracks. O'Brien's yard has been in decent nick this season with 10 winners sent out, so the horse is part of a functioning, productive operation rather than a struggling outfit.

The partnership with jockey John Shinnick is worth highlighting. In 6 races together they've won twice — that's a win rate of 33%, or roughly 1 in every 3 rides. That is a genuinely impressive number. When the right jockey is on board, this horse clearly goes up a gear, and that kind of consistent record between horse and rider usually means they understand each other well.

The recent form, however, tells a more cautious story. Jay Pee M has not won in its last 6 races. The most recent sequence reads second, third, sixth, seventeenth, then two blanks — so there's been a clear decline after a promising spell earlier in the year. The last win was at Navan in March 2025, now 14 months ago, and at 7 years old the horse is no longer young. That said, it raced just one day ago, which means it remains active and the team clearly still believes there's something worth chasing. Whether a third win is coming is an open question, but O'Brien hasn't given up — and sometimes that's all the story you need.