Justcallmepete

What makes him genuinely interesting right now is his current form. He has won 2 of his last 6 races, and crucially he raced just yesterday — so this profile is being written about a horse in the middle of a live campaign. His recent sequence reads 1-3-1-5-4, which is the profile of a horse who fires often enough to keep you watching. Most tellingly, he won a Class 2 race at Chelmsford in December 2025 — one of the better races in British racing outside the top tier — which suggests he can step up when the occasion demands it, and his most recent win came at Windsor just this week. That is a horse in form right now.

Chelmsford is clearly a happy hunting ground. Three wins from nine races there is a 33% win rate — roughly 1 in every 3 visits resulting in a victory — which is the kind of figure that makes trainers and jockeys take notice when the entries go in. Tracks with an all-weather surface clearly suit him.

Most of his racing has come at Class 4 level, the bread-and-butter middle tier of the sport, where he has won 2 from 30 (just 1 in every 15 races), so the wins at higher grades are what elevate his profile above the ordinary. The fact that he can mix it in Class 2 company while competing week-in, week-out at a lower level shows a horse with more ability than his typical assignment suggests.

Jockey Dougie Costello has ridden him 43 times, winning 10 of those — a win rate of 23%, or roughly 1 in every 4 rides together — which is the sort of partnership built on mutual understanding. Trainer Tony Carroll, operating out of Cropthorne in Worcestershire, has sent out 136 winners this season alone. That is a yard firing on all cylinders, and Justcallmepete looks very much part of the reason why.