Kalpana

The horse's love affair with top-class racing — Class 1 competition — is unmistakable. It has won 4 of 8 races at that level, a 50% win rate that most horses can only dream about. But Ascot is where Kalpana truly switches on. The track has seen three wins from six attempts, which is not just good form; it is the kind of track mastery that suggests the horse's running style or temperament suits something particular about the place. The fact that it won top-class races at Ascot exactly a year apart — October 2024 and again in October 2025 — hints at genuine consistency at the highest level. In between, it has won at Kempton on the artificial surface, Hamilton, and York, showing it is no one-trick pony.

Kalpana is trained by Andrew Balding at Kingsclere in Hampshire, a yard that has already sent out 202 winners this season alone. That tells you everything about the calibre of operation this horse is part of. With a horse that runs frequently and at top tracks, and with form this sharp, Kalpana is exactly the kind of performer racing people watch closely — the ones that show up, perform, and come back to do it all again.