Pearl

That win came at Carlisle just this week, on 8 June 2026, and it gives Pearl a win rate of 50% — in other words, one from two. Put simply, every time Pearl has lined up, something good has happened. For a 4-year-old still early in their career, that is a genuinely encouraging foundation.

What adds real interest here is who is doing the training. Ralph Beckett's yard at Kimpton in Hampshire is having a serious season — 107 winners already this campaign, which is the kind of number that marks out a stable firing on all cylinders. When a horse like Pearl wins under Beckett's guidance, it is not a fluke or a lucky day; it is the product of a professional operation that clearly knows what it is doing. Pearl is one small piece of a very busy, very successful picture at Kimpton right now, and with only two races on the clock, there is plenty of story still to be written.