Kool One

Trained by Conor David Maxwell out of Stamullen in County Meath — a yard that has already sent out 6 winners this season — Kool One got its career off the mark at Navan in October 2024, which gave everyone involved a first marker to build from. Since then, the horse has developed a clear preference for longer distances, picking up 2 of its 3 wins over trips between a mile and six furlongs and two miles, winning 25% of its races at those distances. That is a meaningful number — a horse winning 1 in every 4 races at a specific trip is telling you something about where it belongs.

The ground matters too. On normal conditions, Kool One has won 2 from 5 races — a 40% win rate that is genuinely impressive and suggests the horse is at its best when conditions are neither too wet nor too dry. Give it the right trip and the right ground and the numbers start to look considerably better than its overall record implies.

The one puzzle in the profile is its partnership with Mr I Ryan, who has ridden Kool One in 7 of its races without a single win together. That is not necessarily a criticism of either horse or jockey — racing partnerships can be streaky and 7 races is not a huge sample — but it does stand out against the horse's overall record. Recent form shows a mix of mid-field finishes and that August win, and with a race just yesterday, this is clearly a horse still in the thick of its season. For anyone paying attention to Irish racing, Kool One is the sort of horse worth keeping an eye on when the trip is long and the ground is playing fair.