Only A Dollar

The partnership with jockey Sean O'Keeffe has been the most consistent thread running through Only A Dollar's career. They've teamed up 12 times together, producing that one win — so roughly 1 in every 12 rides has ended in the winner's enclosure. It's not a headline-grabbing record, but there's clearly a reason the team keeps coming back to the same combination.

Trained by Sean Aherne out of Conna in County Cork, Only A Dollar races for a yard that has hit five winners this season, so there are sharper tools in the box. Recent form makes for tough reading — no wins in the last six races, with the best efforts being a fifth and a sixth, and three runs where the horse simply didn't feature. That's not the form of a horse building toward something, and at 8 years old, the window for a dramatic turnaround is a narrow one. Still, the fact that Only A Dollar raced just yesterday tells you the team hasn't given up, and in racing, you can never entirely rule out a horse rediscovering the form that brought it to Clonmel's winner's enclosure that afternoon in May 2024.