Kind Touch

That sole victory came at Ripon on 26 August 2025, and the recent form figures tell a story in themselves. Reading back from the most recent race, the sequence goes 4-7-3-2-1 — a horse that won, then finished second, then third, before the last two runs dipped to seventh and fourth. It's the kind of form that suggests Kind Touch hit a peak and has been working back towards it since, which makes the next run genuinely interesting to watch.

The horse is trained by the father-and-son partnership of Richard and Peter Fahey at Musley Bank in North Yorkshire, a yard that has sent out 23 winners already this season. That's a stable in form, which matters — horses trained by busy, confident yards tend to arrive at the track fit and ready. Kind Touch raced just one day ago, so it's very much in the middle of an active campaign, and with that Ripon win still the high-water mark, the yard will be hoping the recent slide in form is just a dip rather than a trend.