Leave Her To Me

Her most recent win came at Warwick on 5 May 2025, and before that she broke through for the first time at Stratford-on-Avon back in August 2022. A gap of nearly three years between a first win and a most recent win tells you something useful: this is a horse that has stayed sound, stayed in training, and kept finding ways to win when conditions fall right. Her recent form reads 6-dash-9-5-1-1 going back through her last six runs — those two ones, back-to-back wins, are the highlight, and they show she hit a purple patch. Since then, a sixth, a blank run, and a ninth suggest she has come back to earth a little, though she raced just one day ago, so she remains firmly in action.

The partnership with jockey Nick Slatter is one of the more interesting threads in her story. Together they have won 2 from 7 races, a win rate of 29% — roughly one in every three and a half starts. That is a noticeably better ratio than her career overall, which suggests Slatter understands how to ride her and gets the best out of her on a good day.

She is trained by David Killahena and Graeme McPherson at their yard in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, a team that has sent out 18 winners already this season — so this is not a quiet backwater operation but a yard in decent form. Leave Her To Me might not be their star turn, but a horse that wins one in four races at a consistent level, stays sound into her eighth year, and runs as recently as yesterday is exactly the kind of reliable performer that keeps a yard ticking over.