Kamikaz Du Plessis

Trained by Gordon Elliott out of Longwood in County Meath, Kamikaz Du Plessis is part of one of the most formidable yards in Irish racing. Elliott's team has sent out 210 winners already this season — a number that puts them in a league very few trainers ever reach. Having a horse in that yard means it is being prepared and placed by people who know exactly what they are doing.

The best ground for this horse is normal conditions — not wet and heavy, not baked and firm, just a standard surface. On that footing, it has won 2 of 6 races, which works out to roughly 1 in every 3 — a noticeably better return than its overall record suggests. That tells you something useful: when conditions suit, Kamikaz Du Plessis is a different proposition. Its two career wins came at Wexford in early July 2025 and Downpatrick on 15 July 2025, both in the same summer window, suggesting it hit a real purple patch over those weeks.

Jack Kennedy, one of Ireland's most respected jockeys, has been in the saddle for five of its twelve races, winning once together — so roughly 1 in every 5 rides has ended in victory. That is a reasonable partnership, though neither horse nor jockey has been able to recapture that winning feeling in recent months. The last six runs read 10, pulled up, 4, 3, 6, 3 — a sequence that includes a few decent placed efforts but also some disappointing outings, and that pulled-up run is a flag worth noting.

Kamikaz Du Plessis raced just yesterday, so it is very much an active, current competitor. The question now is whether Elliott's team can find the right race on the right ground to remind everyone what this horse looked like during those back-to-back wins last summer.