Lady Harriett

That one win came at Ffos Las in November 2024, a Welsh track that has a habit of suiting horses from local yards, and Mickey Bowen's operation in Haverfordwest is about as local as it gets. Bowen has been in fine form this season — 51 winners from the yard is a serious number, the kind of output that tells you this is a well-run outfit worth paying attention to. His son Sean has been the regular partner for Lady Harriett, riding her in 12 of her 22 races for that single win together, roughly 1 in every 12 rides — a pairing that hasn't quite clicked yet but clearly hasn't been abandoned.

Her recent form tells a familiar story: a couple of third-place finishes, then a stretch of blanks, and two races where the form column shows a dash rather than a placing. She hasn't won in her last six races, and that Ffos Las victory is now 19 months in the rearview mirror. Most of her racing has come at Class 5, the entry-level tier of the sport, where she's won 1 from 15 — roughly 1 in every 15 races at that level. That's not a horse dominating her grade, but it's also a horse that keeps showing up and competing.

What makes Lady Harriett genuinely interesting is what Mickey Bowen says about her future. He views her as a chaser in the making — a horse bred and built to jump fences rather than hurdles, and in jumping, that transition can transform a career entirely. For now the plan is to find another suitable race over hurdles, but the real ambition is pointed at fences further down the line. Sometimes a horse takes time to find its true calling. Lady Harriett, it seems, might not have started her best chapter yet.