Jeroboam Machin

The second-place finish in his most recent run is the brightest spot in a dour run of results. He came to post a day ago, came second, and that's the kind of finishing placing that keeps a horse in training and occasionally gets a trainer's hopes up that another win might be round the corner. Jeroboam Machin started his career well enough, recording his first win at Fairyhouse in November 2023, but has won just once in the four and a half years since. Emmet Mullins, his trainer at Bagenalstown, has a sizeable yard—31 winners sent out this season alone—but Jeroboam Machin's return on investment, if he's being honest about it, has been modest. He's a horse who hangs around, occasionally runs well enough to place, and now, at seven years old and 31 months without a win, is asking the question every trainer dreads: is there another race in him?