Okami

What makes Okami genuinely interesting is how specific the conditions need to be before it really fires. On wet or muddy ground, it has won 2 of its 4 races — a remarkable 50% success rate that suggests the heavier the ground gets, the more Okami comes alive. Most horses either handle soft conditions or they don't; Okami actively thrives in them. The same pattern holds at Newcastle, where it has won 2 of its 5 visits. Winning 2 from 5 at any single track is the kind of number that makes trainers pencil that course into the diary first whenever entries open.

That Newcastle connection paid off as recently as January 2026, when Okami won there for the second time, and with the horse last seen racing just 18 days ago, there is clearly no thought of putting it away for a rest. The recent form reads 7-3-6-1-4-1 — two wins tucked inside the last six races — which is about as encouraging a run of results as you could hope for from a horse at this level. For context, Okami competes mainly at Class 5, the bread-and-butter level of British racing, where it has won 3 of its 12 races at that grade, or 1 in every 4. That is a solid return and suggests a horse comfortably suited to its level rather than one struggling to compete.

Behind the scenes, Okami is trained by Paul Midgley at his yard in Westow, North Yorkshire — a stable that has sent out 37 winners already this season, which is a genuinely productive output and signals a team in confident form. Midgley clearly knows what suits this horse and when to run it, and the evidence suggests he has found a reliable partner in Okami: not a star, but the sort of horse that turns up, handles the mud, finds a way to win, and keeps coming back for more.