Kala Conti

Trained by Gordon Elliott at his operation in Longwood, County Meath, Kala Conti is part of one of jump racing's most productive yards. Elliott's team has sent out 209 winners already this season — a number that reflects serious firepower — and Kala Conti has been holding up their end of the bargain. The partnership with jockey Jack Kennedy tells its own story: three wins from seven races together, which works out to wins in 3 of every 7 rides. That is not a jockey who just happens to be aboard occasionally — that is a horse and rider who have clearly figured each other out.

What makes Kala Conti particularly interesting is how it performs when the ground gets soft and the mud starts flying. On wet ground, it has won 2 of its 3 races — a 67% win rate, or two wins from every three attempts — which suggests this is a horse that genuinely comes alive when conditions turn testing. Plenty of horses tolerate soft ground; Kala Conti appears to relish it.

The recent form reads 2-1-1-10-7-2, which deserves a second glance. Strip away the two blips in the middle and what you are looking at is a horse that has finished first or second in four of its last six races. The last win came at Cork in December 2025, and Kala Conti has been given a short break of 57 days since — the kind of pause that suggests a trainer who is happy with what he has and is simply keeping the horse fresh rather than fixing anything.

First winning at Navan back in November 2023, Kala Conti has now built a career that speaks to genuine quality and consistency. This is not a horse that flukes results — it turns up, it competes, and more often than not it finds a way to be right there at the finish.