Jenever

What's most striking is the three-year gap since the last win. Jenever last tasted victory on 2 October 2025 at Nottingham in a Class 2 race, one of the top tiers of British racing. That's genuinely impressive — a glimpse of real quality. But the drought since then is telling. Six races without a win, and the recent form reads like a slow fade: second, fourth, third, eighth, seventh, fifth. Nothing terrible, but nothing that suggests another big-race win is imminent.

The one bright spot is what the ground tells us. Give Jenever slightly soft or muddy conditions and something clicks. The horse has won 2 from 3 races (67%) on that type of going — that's the kind of stat that matters. Sandown Park is another stronghold: 2 wins from 4 races there, another course where Jenever seems to understand what's needed. Jockey Lewis Edmunds has ridden the horse to 5 wins from 26 races together, a 19% partnership win rate that edges ahead of the career average, suggesting they work well as a team.

Trainer Jessica Macey, based near Doncaster, has kept Jenever running at Class 4 level mostly — lower mid-tier racing where 2 wins from 14 attempts reflects the reality of a horse who arrives every month or two but leaves empty-handed more often than not. The horse is still active, still racing, still trying. Whether that Class 2 win at Nottingham was a peak moment or just an outlier depends on which races come next and what the ground looks like when they do.