Lady Youmzain

Her story begins at Beverley in September 2025, where she won on debut, and she has not looked back since. Just this week she returned to the track at Pontefract and won again, confirming that her first victory was no fluke. Two different racecourses, two wins — that suggests a horse who is adaptable and genuine rather than one who simply caught a weak field on a lucky day.

Behind the scenes, Lady Youmzain is trained by Kevin Ryan at his Hambleton yard in North Yorkshire, and the numbers there tell their own story. Forty-five winners sent out this season alone is a serious tally — that is the kind of output that puts a yard firmly in the top tier of British training operations. Ryan knows how to place horses where they can win, and Lady Youmzain looks like exactly the sort of sharp, reliable performer his yard does well with.

She only raced for the first time last autumn and is already two from two heading into spring 2026. That perfect record will not last forever — the further she goes, the tougher the opposition tends to get — but right now Lady Youmzain is one of those horses that is simply doing everything right. Worth keeping an eye on.