Love Billy Boy

The career highlights are genuinely striking. The first win came at Musselburgh in April 2023, and within a year Love Billy Boy had added another Class 2 success at Chester in June 2024 — a notoriously tricky track where the tight bends and short straight catch plenty of horses out. Most recently, there was a win at Leopardstown in June 2025, showing the horse has continued to perform at a high level into this season. Gerard O'Leary's yard has been in good form too, sending out 11 winners already this season, so the operation behind this horse is clearly ticking along nicely.

The recent form does give some pause. The last six runs read 1-2-9-14-9 going backwards from today, meaning that win at Leopardstown was followed by a second place and then a string of disappointing finishes. Love Billy Boy raced just one day ago, so there's plenty of life left in this campaign. Regular partner Sean Levey has ridden the horse 7 times together and landed 1 win — a 14% win rate, or about 1 in 7, which is modest but not unusual when a horse's best days can come in bursts. The profile here is of a horse that can look ordinary for stretches and then suddenly produce something memorable when the race really matters.