Percy Jones

Trained by Mark Loughnane at Rock Farm in Worcestershire, Percy Jones runs best on normal ground conditions — he has won four of his twenty races on such surfaces, compared to just one win from his other twenty-eight races elsewhere. He typically contests Class 4 races and performs strongest over a mile and a quarter to a mile and three furlongs. Billy Loughnane, the stable's jockey, has the best record aboard him, winning three of his eleven races together, a rate that speaks to how well they work as a partnership. The trainer's yard is in strong form this season, having sent out 25 winners already. What makes Percy interesting is not that he is a star — he is not — but that he remains genuinely competitive, a horse that can still produce a win on the right day at the right track, most likely back at Wolverhampton where he has proved himself a cut above his usual opposition.