Mesaafi

The career got going properly at Newcastle in January 2025, and the most recent win came just this week at Windsor on the 1st of June 2026 — so Mesaafi arrives in this profile on the back of a fresh victory, having raced as recently as yesterday. That Windsor win is worth noting because it came on normal ground conditions, where this horse is genuinely at its best. On a standard surface, Mesaafi has won 3 times from 10 races — a 30% win rate, or nearly 1 in every 3 outings. That is a seriously impressive record for those conditions specifically, and it is the kind of stat that a smart punter quietly files away.

Mesaafi tends to operate at Class 4 level — one rung below the top tier, where the competition is solid without being elite — and has won 2 of 11 races at that grade, around 1 in every 5 or 6 attempts. Recent form reads 1-4-8-10-4-4, which means a win followed by a cluster of mid-pack finishes before the recent breakthrough. Jockey Callum Shepherd has been the most regular partner, winning once together from 5 rides — a 20% win rate, meaning he and the horse click roughly 1 time in every 5 trips out, which is a decent return at this level.

Ross Burdon's Newmarket yard has sent out 12 winners this season, so this is not a quiet backwater operation — it is a stable in form, and Mesaafi seems to be feeding off that momentum. A five-year-old with experience, a clear preference for normal ground, and a win on the board just days ago: this is a horse in a good place, doing exactly what it does best.