King Of Charm

The most recent chapter is the most interesting one. King Of Charm won at Newmarket just this week — 20 June 2026 — and came back out the very next day to race again. That kind of turnaround is unusual, and it signals that the team at Martin Dunne's Newmarket yard are confident the horse is in the form of its life right now. That confidence looks well-founded: the last six races show a sequence of 8-8-10-6-2-1, which is a horse that has gone from struggling to finishing second to winning. That is not noise — that is a horse coming to the boil.

Martin Dunne has sent out 20 winners from his Newmarket base this season, which marks him out as a yard operating with real momentum. King Of Charm's revival fits the pattern of a trainer who knows when a horse is ready.

The one puzzle in the profile is the partnership with jockey Darragh Keenan, who has ridden King Of Charm eight times without winning — 0 from 8. That is a long run of near-misses for a regular rider, and it is worth noting that the recent victories have presumably come with someone else in the saddle. At Class 4 level — one step below the bigger prizes but still competitive — King Of Charm has won just 1 of its 9 races at that grade, an 11% win rate. The first career win came at Wolverhampton back in September 2023, a long way from the Newmarket winner's enclosure where the horse now stands.

At this moment, King Of Charm is in form, freshly off a win, and racing again immediately. Whatever comes next, this is a horse worth watching right now.