Lessay

The key to Lessay is conditions. On wet or muddy ground, this horse transforms: two wins from nine races on soft going works out at 22%, or roughly 1 in every 4 or 5 attempts. That is a dramatically better record than its overall figures suggest, and it tells you that when the ground is in its favour, Lessay is a genuinely competitive animal rather than a participant. The same logic applies to distance — over seven furlongs to a mile, it has won 4 of 28 races, which is where all four career victories have come. Go shorter or longer and the evidence disappears entirely.

Kempton Park has a special place in this horse's story. It was there, on 13 December 2023, that Lessay won for the very first time, and it has gone on to win twice from nine visits to the track — making it one of the most reliable places to find this horse at its best. Two wins from nine races at a single venue is the kind of stat that makes experienced race-watchers sit up; most horses never find a track they love like that. Just this week, Lessay added another win at Wolverhampton on 28 June 2026, suggesting the horse is in the best form of its recent career.

That recent form reads 1––2–7–11–5 from the last six runs, and the sequence is encouraging. A win, a second, and a blank result in between point to a horse that is currently competitive rather than just making up the numbers. Patrick Morris, training out of Prescott in Merseyside, has sent out 18 winners this season, and Lessay's midweek success contributes to a yard clearly in decent nick. Regular rider David Nolan has yet to win together with Lessay in five attempts, though the horse's big moments have clearly come with others in the saddle.

Lessay is not a headline act, but it is the kind of horse that rewards anyone paying attention — especially when the ground is soft and the trip is right.