Lemmy Caution

That one win came at Punchestown on 13 May, and it matters more than it might appear on paper. Punchestown is one of Ireland's most prestigious venues, the kind of place where only genuine horses tend to find the winner's enclosure. Landing a first career victory there, rather than at a quieter track, suggests there is real ability lurking beneath those numbers. His recent form reads 3-1-6-3-3-5, which shows a horse that runs consistently in the mix — placed three times in his last six races — with that Punchestown win sitting right at the heart of it.

He is trained by Gordon Elliott at Longwood in County Meath, and the scale of that operation is difficult to overstate. Elliott's yard has sent out 210 winners already this season — a figure that reflects one of the most formidable training set-ups in jump racing on either side of the Irish Sea. When Elliott spoke about Lemmy Caution back in October 2025, he was clearly taken with him, pointing to an impressive win in a four-year-old point-to-point under Colin Bowe and noting he had been working well at home. "Hopefully he's nice," Elliott said — and in racing, that kind of quiet optimism from a trainer who has seen everything is often worth paying attention to.

With a win rate of around 1 in every 6 races, Lemmy Caution is no machine, but he is reliably competitive, and having raced just yesterday he is very much a horse in the thick of his season. The combination of a big-venue win, an elite trainer with a yard firing on all cylinders, and some encouraging early promise makes him one to keep an eye on as the campaign develops.