My Champion

That win came at Wolverhampton on 6 January 2026, and it said something interesting about where this horse actually belongs. Over a mile and one or two furlongs, My Champion has won 1 from 4 races — that is a 25% win rate at those distances, which is a far more impressive picture than the overall record of 1 win from 9 suggests. Horses often have a sweet spot in terms of trip, and that middle-distance range looks like this one's. Strip away the races run at the wrong distance and the horse starts to look like a more serious proposition.

The yard behind it is no afterthought either. Edward Bethell's Middleham operation has sent out 62 winners this season alone, which means My Champion is being prepared and placed by a team that clearly knows how to get horses to the track in form. Bethell's record gives some confidence that when this horse lines up, it is not there by accident. The puzzle, though, is that My Champion has raced four times at Class 5 — the bread-and-butter level of British racing — and has yet to win at that level, which makes the January victory all the more interesting to unpick. At 11% overall, it wins roughly 1 in every 9 races, but the numbers shift considerably when conditions suit.

Having raced just yesterday, this is a horse in the middle of an active campaign. Whether the team can find another race at the right distance and coax a second win out of a three-year-old still figuring things out is the question worth watching.