Pole Star

The overall career record reads 3 wins and 4 places from 10 races, which works out at winning 3 in every 10 — a solid return, particularly given that Pole Star almost exclusively competes in Class 2 races, which are among the better contests in Britain. At that level the competition is serious, and winning 1 from 7 attempts in Class 2 (roughly 14%, or about 1 in 7) is honestly respectable rather than spectacular — but those Haydock wins tell a more interesting story than the overall numbers suggest.

The two Haydock victories came on 30 May and 5 July 2025, meaning Pole Star won there twice in the space of five weeks. That kind of quick turnaround success at the same course suggests the horse genuinely thrives on the track itself — the shape of the bends, the ground, the configuration — rather than just getting lucky once. Behind those highlights, the recent form figures of 4-13-5-6-1-1 show a horse that was building nicely before a couple of disappointing efforts crept back in.

Pole Star is trained by Charlie Johnston at Middleham Moor in North Yorkshire, and the yard is having a strong season — 128 winners already, which is the output of an operation running at real momentum. Johnston is a trainer who knows how to place a horse to its best advantage, and the decision to keep returning Pole Star to Haydock looks, in hindsight, like exactly the right call. The one note of caution is that the last win on record came at Great Yarmouth in late July 2025 — listed here as nine months ago, though Pole Star raced just yesterday, suggesting there is more recent form still to be fully accounted for. Either way, this is a horse in active campaign, trained by a yard firing on all cylinders, with a course record at Haydock that gives its team every reason to keep coming back.