Lone Star

The highlight of Lone Star's career came on 24 March 2023 at Musselburgh, where the horse won a Class 2 race — one of the better races you'll find in Britain. That's a step above the Class 5 company Lone Star typically competes in, and it suggests that on the right day, in the right conditions, there's more to this horse than the bread-and-butter circuit might indicate. The Class 2 win remains the jewel in the crown, the kind of result that justifies everything else.

Conditions matter enormously with Lone Star. On slightly soft, wet ground, the record reads 4 wins from 13 races — that's winning nearly 1 in 3, which is a striking improvement on the overall average. If it rained before your next trip to the track and Lone Star was declared, you'd sit up and take notice. Newcastle also seems to suit: 2 wins from just 4 races there is a course record that punters call specialist form, and it's the track where Lone Star got off the mark for the first time on Boxing Day 2022.

The partnership with jockey Joe Williamson is the most significant single relationship in Lone Star's career. Together they've won 6 from 31 races — that's a 19% win rate, or roughly 1 in every 5 rides, which is meaningfully better than the horse's overall average. When Williamson is booked, the team clearly has confidence in its chances.

The last win came at Market Rasen on 13 June 2025 — about twelve months ago now — and the most recent six races have produced no victories, with a tenth-place finish mixed in among some more encouraging placed efforts. Trained by Philip Kirby out of East Appleton in North Yorkshire, a yard that has sent out 36 winners this season alone, Lone Star is clearly well supported and still in the mix. The wet-ground form and the Newcastle affinity give plenty of reasons to stay interested.