Ottoman

Both wins have also come on fast, dry ground, where he has won 2 from 7 races — a 29% win rate. That tells you something useful: when Leicester is riding quick and the trip is around a mile and three or four furlongs, Ottoman becomes a genuinely different proposition. His preferred distance range of 1m3f to 1m4f has produced both career victories from 11 attempts, a win rate of 18%, or roughly 1 in every 6 races — well above his overall average.

His recent form makes encouraging reading too. From his last six races, the sequence runs 10th, 8th, 3rd, 2nd, 5th, and then a win just this week at Leicester on 14 July 2026. That is a horse finding his form at exactly the right moment, going from the back of the field to the front in the space of a few months. He raced just yesterday, so he is firmly in the middle of his season.

Jockey Aiden Brookes has been in the saddle for 5 of Ottoman's races and they have won together once — a 20% win rate, which is double Ottoman's overall average. That partnership appears to suit the horse. Behind the scenes, the yard of Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero, based in Cheshire, has sent out 43 winners this season alone, so this is not a small operation scrambling for results. Ottoman may be competing at Class 6, the bread-and-butter end of racing, but within those conditions — dry ground, Leicester, the right trip — he has shown he can be very hard to beat.