Margorie

That one win came at Windsor on 1 September 2025, over the shorter distances she clearly prefers — between five and six and a half furlongs, where she has won 1 from 6 races. She hasn't won since, and her last six results (10th, 10th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 5th) make for difficult reading. She's been running into brick walls, though she did at least finish fifth most recently, which is the best she's managed in that recent run of form. She raced just yesterday, so she's clearly being kept busy.

Her regular partner in the saddle is Oliver Carmichael, who has ridden her in 5 of her 9 races and was aboard for that Windsor win. Together they've clicked at a rate of 1 win from 5 rides — 20% — which is actually a healthy number by racing standards, equivalent to winning roughly 1 in every 5 times they team up. The fact that Carmichael keeps coming back suggests the yard hasn't given up on finding the right opportunity.

Margorie is trained by Eve Johnson Houghton at Blewbury in Oxfordshire, a yard that has sent out 42 winners this season and clearly knows how to get horses winning. Most of Margorie's races have come at Class 5 level — the kind of bread-and-butter races where she's most competitive — and she's won 1 of her 3 races at that level, a 33% win rate that reads as 1 in every 3. That's genuinely solid, and it suggests she isn't badly placed when the right race comes along. The challenge is finding that race again.