Passing Pleasure

The most telling thing about Passing Pleasure right now is the recent sequence. Looking at the last six races — fourth, second, first, first, second, second — that's a horse that found its best form and ran with it. Back-to-back wins in December 2025, first at Musselburgh and then at Catterick Bridge just eight days later, showed a horse that had genuinely hit a purple patch. That kind of quick turnaround and back-to-back winning is not easy to pull off, and it suggests the horse was feeling very well in itself at the time.

Since that Catterick win four months ago, Passing Pleasure has posted two runner-up finishes, which means it has stayed competitive without quite getting back to the winner's enclosure. Whether that represents a horse that has levelled off slightly or simply one that's been unlucky is an open question — but second place twice over is far from a cause for concern.

The yard behind the horse is Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero, based at Oldcastle in Cheshire. With 42 winners sent out already this season, this is clearly a training operation that knows what it's doing and keeps horses fit and ready to race. A horse in double-figure form doesn't come from a yard that's standing still.

One interesting wrinkle: in the slightly higher-class races it has been entered in three times, Passing Pleasure has yet to win. That's not a damning record — better competition means tougher asks — but it does suggest the horse is most dangerous when the conditions suit it rather than when it's being stretched. Catch it right, and this is a horse that finishes on the podium more often than not.