Lohengrin

That one career win came at Laytown in September 2025, a racecourse unlike any other in Ireland — a strand track on the beach in Co Meath where the tide sets the timetable. It was a fitting venue for a horse trained by E D Delany, who is based locally and has sent out five winners this season. The yard clearly knows what it is doing; the question has always been when Lohengrin would finally deliver.

The distance range of seven furlongs to a mile suits him best, and that is where his sole win came. He has won 1 from 8 races at that trip — 12% of the time, or roughly 1 in every 8 — which is actually a perfectly respectable conversion rate if you isolate just those runs. It suggests there is something there; it just has not translated into consistent results. Regular partner Colin Keane, one of Ireland's finest jockeys, has yet to find the winning formula from eight attempts together, which adds another curious footnote to the story.

At six years old and last raced just yesterday, Lohengrin is very much still in the mix. The career prize money tells its own quiet story — this is a horse competing at a modest level, placing often enough to keep everyone interested, but not yet threatening to climb any higher. The Laytown win remains the highlight, and the real question now is whether it was a breakthrough or simply a moment that comes once in 29 chances.