Midnight Ginger

The headline number is 4 wins from 33 races, which works out to roughly 1 in every 8. That is a modest win rate by any measure, but the story gets more interesting when you zoom in. At Chepstow specifically, she has won 2 from 5 — that is 40%, or 2 in every 5 races, which is a completely different animal to her overall record. Some horses simply take to certain tracks, whether it is the shape of the bends, the camber of the ground, or something else entirely that nobody can quite explain. For Midnight Ginger, Chepstow appears to be that place. Her last win came there in January 2024, now 27 months ago, but the course record alone makes her worth watching whenever she turns up there.

She also has a clear preference for wet or muddy ground, winning 2 from 10 races in those conditions — a 20% win rate, or 1 in every 5. Given that the British winter reliably delivers exactly those conditions, that is a useful trait to have. Most of her racing has come at the mid-level Class 4 tier, where she has won 2 from 20, a 10% clip that reflects a horse who is competitive without being dominant at that level.

Her partnership with jockey Mr James Martin is the longest-running and most productive relationship of her career. Together they have won 4 from 23 races, a 17% win rate — roughly 1 in every 6 — which is meaningfully better than her overall record. That suggests there is something in the familiarity, a rider who knows when to ask and when to wait.

The last 6 races have not produced a win, with recent finishes of 6th, 11th, 8th, 7th, 4th, and 8th. The fourth-place finish in that sequence shows she is placing occasionally, but a win has not come since January 2024. Trained by Andrew J Martin out of Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire — a yard that has sent out 6 winners already this season — Midnight Ginger remains active and clearly still capable. The question is whether the right combination of course, ground, and conditions clicks into place again.