One And Only

The partnership with jockey Phillip Enright is the real thread running through this story. The two have raced together 19 times, producing both of One And Only's career wins — a win rate of 11%, or just over 1 in every 9 races together. That's meaningfully better than the horse's overall record, and it tells you something: when Enright is in the saddle, things tend to click. The first win came at Cork in December 2024, and the most recent at Limerick in March 2026. Two wins might not sound like much, but for a horse of this profile, each one has clearly been earned rather than handed over.

Trained by Oliver McKiernan out of Rathcoole in County Dublin, One And Only is part of a yard that has sent out 6 winners so far this season — a solid return that suggests McKiernan knows how to place his horses well and find the right opportunities. That patience and precision seems to suit a horse like this, one that needs the conditions and the moment to be right. With 8 places alongside those 2 wins, One And Only has finished in the top three in 10 of 27 races — it's competitive far more often than a bare win tally would suggest.

Racing as recently as yesterday, this is a horse still very much in the thick of things. The recent form shows a win, a third, and a seventh scattered across the last six runs, which is the kind of mixed but engaged profile you'd expect from a horse being actively campaigned at this level. At 8, One And Only isn't a young prospect anymore — but it's a horse that has found its wins at the right moments, kept a reliable partner in the saddle, and is still lining up. Sometimes that's the whole story.