Motazzen

Across 44 races, he has won 6 times and placed on a further 15 occasions — a win rate of roughly 1 in every 7 races, which is solid without being spectacular. What makes his record genuinely interesting, though, is where and when he wins. On wet or muddy ground, he transforms: 4 wins from just 9 races, winning nearly half the time. That's not a quirk — that's a weapon, and it's the kind of information that makes a horse far more valuable than a bare win rate suggests.

His spiritual home appears to be Fontwell Park, a tight, quirky little track in West Sussex where he has won 3 of his 7 races. That's an extraordinary return for any horse, and his most recent win there came just two months ago in March 2026, suggesting he hasn't lost his affection for the place. His biggest career moment came at Nottingham in September 2023, when he won a Class 2 race — one of the top races in Britain — which stands as the high-water mark of a career that otherwise runs mostly at the lower Class 5 level.

His regular jockey Brendan Powell has ridden him in 12 races together, winning once — a modest partnership on paper. But as Powell's fellow rider Paul O'Brien put it after a Southwell win, Motazzen "has his mojo working" when everything clicks: good ground conditions, a race that suits him, and a horse that, by his own account, was having a good look around once he hit the front. That last detail says something. A horse who sightseers in the lead isn't desperate — he's comfortable. After a long road from the French Flat to British jump racing, Motazzen seems to have found his groove, and with Henrietta Knight's yard firing out 15 winners already this season, there's no sign of him slowing down yet.