Not Just Any Eagle

The sweet spot is clear: stretch the trip out to a mile and three or four furlongs, and a different horse emerges. At that distance, the record reads 3 wins from 14 races — winning 21% of the time, or roughly 1 in every 5. For context, that's a noticeably better conversion than the overall career average, and it's the kind of stat that tells you the horse genuinely needs the extra distance to show its best. Flynn clearly knows this, because the yard has been in fine form this season with 10 winners sent out.

Cork is where Not Just Any Eagle really thrives. Two wins from just four races there gives a 50% win rate at the track — a coin flip every time it turns up. That's the sort of course affinity that trainers quietly treasure. The first career win came at Cork on 22 July 2022, so there's history between horse and track, and the numbers back it up entirely.

Robyn Donaghue-Leahy has been the regular partner for most of the career, riding 23 of those 36 races together and recording 4 of the 5 wins — winning roughly 1 in every 6 races as a combination. That kind of established partnership matters; a jockey who knows a horse well can find those extra lengths when it counts.

The recent form figures of 7-10-9-7-2-3 tell you the horse is currently having a lean patch, with no win in the last 6 races. But a second and a third in the most recent pair show it hasn't lost its competitive edge entirely. The last win came at Leopardstown in May 2025, and with the horse still active — racing just one day ago — there's clearly no shortage of ambition from Flynn's team. At the right trip, on the right track, this one can still spring a surprise.