Neyva's Angel
Neyva's Angel is a 4-year-old who has taken a while to find the winner's enclosure, winning just 1 of 12 career races — roughly 1 in every 12 outings — but the recent signs suggest that first victory may have unlocked something. That win came at Southwell on 5th April 2026, and the form either side of it is encouraging: a seventh and a fifth before, then a second and a fourth after. That's a horse that has found a level and is competing consistently rather than running out of ideas.Based on TrackLab's AI analysis
Owner
Stephen Joseph Traynor
📊 Key Numbers
Career statistics for this horse
33.3%
Place rate (top 3)
avg ~30%
🔍 Full Analysis
TrackLab's AI-generated assessment based on career data and recent form
The Southwell win is worth paying attention to. It's the track where everything clicked, and horses often return to the same venues in search of more of the same. Whether that happens again will tell us a lot about whether April was a breakthrough moment or simply a good day.
What's slightly unusual is that Neyva's Angel has yet to win at Class 5, the level at which it typically competes — 0 from 4 at that grade — yet still managed to get off the mark. That suggests the win may have come in slightly different circumstances, and it will be interesting to see whether the horse can now translate that confidence into results at its usual level.
Martin Dunne trains the horse from a Newmarket base, and the yard is in decent nick this season with 20 winners already on the board. Newmarket is one of the great centres of British racing, and a yard firing at that rate knows what it's doing. With Neyva's Angel having raced as recently as yesterday and showing a run of placed efforts, this is a horse worth keeping an eye on while the form is warm.
⚡ Strengths & Risks
What the data says works for and against this horse
✓ What works in their favour
✔ Excellent record on standard ground: 1 wins from 4 starts (25%)
🎯 Where This Horse Thrives
Performance broken down by ground, distance, class, and track type
🌧 Ground Conditions
Standard (all-weather)
Loves
Good to soft (some give)
Unknown
Good to firm (drying out)
Unknown
Standard to slow (all-weather)
Unknown
🏅 Competition Level
Class 4 (standard)
Avoids
Class 5 (entry-level)
Avoids
🏟 Track Shape
Left-handed, long straights
Loves
Right-handed, tight turns
Unknown
Right-handed, long straights
Avoids
📅 Recent Runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
28 May
2nd
Great Yarmouth
5f – 6½f · Good_To_Firm · 10 runners
9 May
4th
Ascot
5f – 6½f · Good_To_Firm · 19 runners
29 Apr
DNF
Southwell
5f – 6½f · Standard · 8 runners
5 Apr
🏆 Won
Southwell
5f – 6½f · Standard · 9 runners
14 Mar
7th
Southwell
7f – 1m · Standard · 11 runners
19 Jan
5th
Kempton Park
7f – 1m · Standard_To_Slow · 11 runners
31 Oct
4th
Newmarket
5f – 6½f · Good · 11 runners
21 Oct
9th
Great Yarmouth
5f – 6½f · Good_To_Soft · 11 runners
23 Sep
4th
Southwell
Sprint (< 5f) · Standard · 7 runners
15 Sep
6th
Kempton Park
5f – 6½f · Standard_To_Slow · 9 runners
🏇 Jockey Partnerships
Every jockey who has ridden this horse, sorted by rides together
🏟 Track Record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last visited | Win rate |
|---|
| Southwell Galloping |
4 |
1 win, 3 other |
29 Apr |
25% |
| Great Yarmouth Galloping |
3 |
1 second, 1 third, 1 other |
28 May |
0% |
| Kempton Park Galloping |
2 |
2 other |
19 Jan |
0% |
| Windsor Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
1 Sep |
0% |
| Newmarket Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
31 Oct |
0% |
| Ascot Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
9 May |
0% |