Parikarma

Drinkwater has sent out 8 winners this season, which suggests a small but functioning yard that knows how to place its horses. Parikarma fits that picture: a dependable, experienced campaigner rather than a star, placed in races where it has a genuine chance rather than thrown in at the deep end. The horse's best distance is somewhere between a mile and one furlong and a mile and two furlongs — at that trip it has won 2 from 7 races, which works out to roughly 1 in every 3.5 outings. That is a meaningful improvement on its overall record and suggests the team knows exactly where this horse is at its most dangerous.

Ground matters too. On normal conditions, Parikarma wins 2 from 9 races — about 1 in 4.5 — which is comfortably its best surface. Soft or muddy ground, by contrast, clearly doesn't suit. Its most recent win came at Newton Abbot in June 2024, now 25 months ago, so there is a wait for the winner's enclosure. The last six races have brought a mixed bag — a second and a third tucked in among some quieter efforts — which at least shows the horse is still competitive rather than fading away entirely.

Miss Imogen Mathias rides most often, partnering Parikarma 12 times for that one win together, a rate of roughly 1 in 12. The horse raced just yesterday, which tells you it is in a busy spell right now. At nine years old and with 45 races behind it, Parikarma is very much a veteran of the lower ranks — not a horse chasing glory, but one that clearly still enjoys the game and gives the yard something to cheer every few outings.