Musical Angel

That peak came at Epsom Downs on 28 September 2025, when Musical Angel landed its second career win — a result that will have meant something to trainer Simon Dow, given that Epsom is quite literally his back garden. Dow is based in the town, and training a winner on the famous old track is the kind of thing that matters to a local yard. His team has been in decent nick this season, sending out 14 winners, so the infrastructure around Musical Angel is solid.

The horse made its first winning mark at Brighton back in June 2025, which gives it two wins at two different venues — always a handy sign that it isn't entirely dependent on one particular track or set of conditions. At its most common level of competition, it has won 1 from 5 races, a 20% win rate, or roughly 1 in every 5 — which is actually a perfectly respectable return at that level. The problem is that the last six runs include a couple of performances, the sixth and eighth-place finishes, that suggest things have not been entirely straightforward since that Epsom success.

What makes Musical Angel worth watching is simple: it raced just one day ago, meaning it is bang in the middle of its season, and horses with a placed record as consistent as this one — finishing in the top three more than half the time overall — have a habit of finding another win when conditions click. Whether it can rediscover the form that made it competitive at Epsom last September is the question. The answer, given how active it currently is, should not be long in coming.