Our Uncle Jack

His overall record reads 3 wins and 3 places from 14 races — wins coming at roughly 1 in every 5 outings — and it tells the story of a horse that needs things to fall right for him. He got off the mark at Tramore in October 2023, a track well known for testing, boggy ground, and has since added a second win at Fairyhouse as recently as February 2026, just eight weeks ago. Two wins from his last six races is a horse in form, and a short break of 36 days since his last run suggests he's being freshened up rather than rested through injury.

He's trained by Martin Paul Fitzgerald at Killeagh in County Cork, a yard that has sent out 4 winners already this season — a modest but ticking operation. The interesting wrinkle is the jockey situation. Our Uncle Jack is most often ridden by Mr D M Fitzgerald, who has partnered him in 5 races without getting a winner from the combination. That's not necessarily a damning statistic — horses and riders click at different moments — but it does mean that his recent wins have come with someone else in the saddle.

The bigger picture here is a horse who has found his niche late. At ten years old, he's not getting any younger, but he's also not getting any slower when the heavens open. If you're watching him line up on a rain-soaked afternoon and wondering whether to pay attention, the answer is yes — because on that kind of ground, he wins 3 times out of every 5. That's not a fluke. That's a horse who has worked out exactly what he's good at.