Monks Mead

The most recent of those Lingfield wins came on 21 January 2026, just four months ago, and with Monks Mead racing as recently as yesterday, this is a horse very much in the thick of an active campaign. The current form reads encouragingly too — in the last six outings, there have been two runner-up finishes, a fourth, and that January win, suggesting a horse consistently finding its way into the places even when it does not take the spoils.

Mark Usher trains the horse from his yard at Upper Lambourn in Berkshire, and it has been a productive season for the operation, which has sent out 14 winners so far. Jockey George Bass has partnered Monks Mead more than anyone else — 14 times in total — winning once together. That is a 7% win rate as a partnership, just a shade below the horse's overall average, but the sheer volume of rides suggests Bass knows this horse well, which counts for something at the sharp end of a race.

Monks Mead does its best work over a mile and three furlongs to a mile and four — middle distances that ask a horse to stay honest throughout. At those trips, the record shows 1 win from 6 races, or roughly 1 in 6, which is the strongest conversion rate by distance. Almost all of its racing has come at Class 6, the entry level of the sport, and all three career wins have come there. This is not a horse troubling the top ranks, but within its own world — that level, those distances, that track — Monks Mead is a genuine force worth keeping an eye on.