Little Lady Lucy

She has been on the track as recently as yesterday, so whatever momentum she has built is live and current. Her first career win came at Down Royal in September 2024, and her most recent came at Taunton in April 2026, two months ago. That is a horse who has been learning on the job and gradually working out how to win races rather than just run in them.

Ground conditions matter a lot with horses, and Little Lady Lucy has a clear preference for normal, standard going. On that surface she has won 2 from 8 races — a 25% win rate, or roughly 1 in every 4 races — which is a genuinely strong record. Compare that to her overall career figures and you can see she is a different proposition when the ground suits her.

The one puzzle in her profile is her record at Class 5, which is the level she typically competes at — the bread-and-butter end of the sport. There she has run 7 times without winning once. Given that she has won 3 races in her career, those wins have all come when conditions or circumstances aligned in a particular way, rather than through grinding down weaker opponents at her home level. That is a quirk worth keeping in mind.

She is trained by Neil Mulholland, who operates out of Limpley Stoke in Wiltshire. Her yard has sent out 60 winners already this season — a serious training operation with real momentum behind it. A trainer firing at that rate tends to run horses when they are ready, which means Little Lady Lucy's recent activity is probably not coincidental. When a yard is in form and a horse is in form, it is usually worth paying attention.