Love Beach
Love Beach is a 4-year-old with the kind of modest but steady record that keeps a horse in work and its the yard hopeful. Two wins from eleven races — a 18% win rate — is nothing to celebrate, but the horse has placed six times as well, suggesting it turns up every race day and does its job more often than not. The concern is freshness: it hasn't won since April at Nottingham, five months ago, and while it raced just yesterday, that recent run came after what looks like a layoff. A horse that runs once then disappears for weeks before running again can lose its edge.Based on TrackLab's AI analysis
📊 Key Numbers
Career statistics for this horse
54.5%
Place rate (top 3)
avg ~30%
🔍 Full Analysis
TrackLab's AI-generated assessment based on career data and recent form
What stands out about Love Beach is its preference for normal ground conditions. On standard turf, it has won 2 of its 5 races — a 40% win rate, which is genuinely strong. That's not a fluke; it's a clear pattern. Give this horse firm, fast ground or wet, muddy ground and it struggles to land a blow, but normal conditions seem to unlock something. That's the kind of detail a sharp trainer uses, and James Fanshawe's Newmarket yard — which has sent out 44 winners already this season — will know exactly when to run this horse.
In the bigger picture, Love Beach is a Class 4 competitor: one win from four attempts at that level. It is well suited to modest company, and when Fanshawe picks its races carefully and the ground falls right, it can win. The streak over the last six runs (three placings in the last four races) suggests form is there, but it needs to return to the conditions it loves and get back in the winner's circle soon, or it risks becoming a perpetual runner-up.
⚡ Strengths & Risks
What the data says works for and against this horse
✓ What works in their favour
✔ Excellent record on good ground: 2 wins from 5 starts (40%)
⚠ What to watch out for
⚠ Poor record on soft ground: 0 wins from 3 starts
🎯 Where This Horse Thrives
Performance broken down by ground, distance, class, and track type
🌧 Ground Conditions
Good to soft (some give)
Unknown
🏅 Competition Level
Class 2 (high-level)
Unknown
Class 3 (mid-level)
Unknown
🏟 Track Shape
Left-handed, long straights
Likes
Left-handed, tight
Unknown
Right-handed, hilly
Unknown
Right-handed, long straights
Unknown
📅 Recent Runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
29 Aug
11th
Sandown Park
1m1f – 1m2f · Good_To_Soft · 13 runners
12 Jun
10th
York
1m3f – 1m4f · Good · 16 runners
2 May
3rd
Goodwood
1m1f – 1m2f · Good · 11 runners
8 Apr
🏆 Won
Nottingham
1m3f – 1m4f · Good · 10 runners
29 Oct
3rd
Nottingham
1m3f – 1m4f · Soft · 5 runners
8 Oct
3rd
Nottingham
1m1f – 1m2f · Good_To_Soft · 11 runners
17 Sep
6th
Great Yarmouth
1m1f – 1m2f · Soft · 9 runners
11 Jul
5th
Chester
1m3f – 1m4f · Good · 8 runners
30 May
🏆 Won
Haydock Park
1m1f – 1m2f · Good · 10 runners
30 Oct
3rd
Nottingham
1m1f – 1m2f · Soft · 9 runners
🏇 Jockey Partnerships
Every jockey who has ridden this horse, sorted by rides together
🏟 Track Record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last visited | Win rate |
|---|
| Nottingham Galloping |
5 |
1 win, 3 thirds, 1 other |
8 Apr |
20% |
| Haydock Park Galloping |
1 |
1 win |
30 May |
100% |
| Chester Tight |
1 |
1 other |
11 Jul |
0% |
| Great Yarmouth Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
17 Sep |
0% |
| Goodwood Undulating |
1 |
1 third |
2 May |
0% |
| York Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
12 Jun |
0% |
| Sandown Park Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
29 Aug |
0% |