Pallas Lord

At eight years old, Pallas Lord has run 71 times in total, winning 10 and finishing in the places a further 28 times. That's a win rate of around 1 in every 7 races across his career, but the headline figure undersells how effective he is in the right conditions. When you narrow it down to his preferred level — the races he contests most often, the Class 6 tier which sits at the entry level of the sport — he wins roughly 1 in every 5, with 10 wins from 50 races at that grade. That's a horse who knows his level, competes hard at it, and delivers.

His partnership with jockey Jason Hart is one of the more productive combinations in his career. The two have won 4 of their 18 races together — a win rate of 22%, or roughly 1 in every 4 rides — which is meaningfully better than his overall average and suggests Hart brings something out in him.

Behind the scenes, Pallas Lord is trained by Donald Whillans, operating out of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. It's a smaller yard by the standards of British racing, but one that has sent out 9 winners already this season — a solid return that shows the operation knows what it's doing with horses at this level. His first career win came at Newcastle in January 2022, and the most recent came there too, in February 2026 — four months ago. The fact that his first and latest wins are at the same track, four years apart, says a lot about the consistency of the horse and the thinking of the team around him.

He raced just yesterday, keeping himself sharp and current. With that Newcastle record, and with Hart available, it would take a brave person to write him off next time the gates open at his favourite track.