King Of Chaos

That win at Lingfield does carry a little weight, though. At distances between 7 furlongs and a mile, King Of Chaos has won 1 from 4 races — a 25% win rate, which means it wins roughly 1 in every 4 times it runs at that trip. That is a noticeably better record than its overall numbers suggest, and it hints that when conditions suit — the right track, the right distance — this horse is a different proposition. The problem is that those conditions have not come together often enough.

The last six runs tell a difficult story: placings of 3rd, 7th, 7th, 9th, 5th, and 11th, listed most recent first. That means the best recent effort — a third place — was the most recent one, which is at least the right direction. But there has been no win since February, now four months ago, and the sequence includes a couple of performances deep in the field that will have frustrated the team at Dylan Cunha's Newmarket yard. Cunha is in decent form overall — 45 winners sent out this season is a solid return — so the infrastructure is there for King Of Chaos to improve.

At Class 5, which is the level this horse typically competes at, it has won 1 from 5 races, a 20% win rate. That is not embarrassing — winning 1 in every 5 at any level takes ability — but it does suggest this is a horse still searching for consistency rather than one ready to step up in class. At three years old, with racing experience building and a trainer who clearly knows how to find winners, there is still time for King Of Chaos to make its name mean something in the record books rather than just on the racecard.