Only For Our Man

That sole win came at Down Royal on 12 April 2026, and it looks less like a fluke when you set it against the recent form figures: 3-2-2-1-2-10. Read those right to left and what you see is a horse that spent months finishing second and third, finally broke through for a win, and has since gone back to placing twice more. Only that last effort — the 10 — jars slightly, though one poor run rarely tells the whole story.

Paul Nolan trains the horse from his yard in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, and he is having a productive season with 25 winners already sent out. Nolan is the kind of trainer who keeps a horse busy and competitive, and Only For Our Man fits that pattern — nine races at six years old, placing in two thirds of them, racing as recently as yesterday. There is a quiet consistency here that is easy to overlook.

The honest summary is this: Only For Our Man is not a star, but it is a reliable, competitive horse who finds the frame more often than not. For a horse with just one win to its name, the six places across nine races actually tell a more encouraging story than the win rate alone suggests. The challenge now is turning that consistency into a second victory — and with Nolan's yard in form and the horse racing as frequently as it is, another opportunity will not be far away.