Jisco Du Brem

What stands out most starkly is how conditions affect this horse. On normal ground, Jisco Du Brem has won 2 from 5 races — a 40% win rate. That is a remarkable number. To put it simply: give this horse the ground it wants, and it wins nearly half the time. That is not a coincidence, that is a pattern worth knowing about.

Jonathan Sweeney trains the horse from his yard in Kildinan, County Cork, and it has been a productive season for the operation — eight winners sent out already. Sweeney is not a trainer whose name fills the back pages of the national press, but yards that quietly post eight winners in a season are yards that know what they are doing. The first career win came at Kilbeggan in June 2025, and the more recent Ballinrobe success suggests the horse has matured and improved since then — a second win taking longer to come than the yard would have liked, perhaps, but arriving all the same.

With a race just one day ago, Jisco Du Brem is as active as any horse in training right now. The career record of 2 wins and 6 places from 13 races tells a story of a horse that competes consistently without always converting — placed nearly half the time it has raced, which means it is nearly always in the thick of things. At seven years old, it is at the age when horses often know their job thoroughly. The ingredients are there: a trainer in form, a horse that loves normal ground, and a recent win to build on.