Le Diablo

That Clonmel win on 14 April 2026 was the breakthrough moment — a first career success that took 11 races to arrive, which is not unusual for a horse still learning its trade at five years old. The fact that Le Diablo has placed three times without winning suggests it has been competitive at this level for a while, doing plenty right without quite getting its nose in front. When it finally did, it was at Clonmel, and a second-place finish in a subsequent run hints the yard believes there is more to come.

The trainer is John Patrick Ryan, based in Templemore, County Tipperary — a yard that has sent out 21 winners already this season, which tells you this is not a small operation making up the numbers. Having that kind of firepower behind a horse matters: it means Le Diablo is being placed in the right races by people who know what they are doing. With a race as recently as yesterday, this is a horse very much in active campaign, and the team clearly have plans for it in the short term.