Prince Hector

What makes Prince Hector genuinely interesting, though, is where those two wins have come. Both of them are at Wolverhampton, an all-weather track in the West Midlands that operates year-round. In 20 races there, he has won twice — that is 1 in every 10, which on normal ground over a mile and three-quarters to two miles is meaningfully better than anything he has managed elsewhere. For a horse with a 4% win rate overall, finding a track and a set of conditions where that number doubles is not a small thing. Wolverhampton, it seems, simply suits him.

His most recent win came there on 15 March 2025, which was just over a year ago, and he raced again only yesterday — so he is very much in active training with Jessica Bedi's yard in Kirklevington, North Yorkshire. Bedi has sent out 2 winners this season, a small but ticking operation. The jockey most associated with Prince Hector is Paula Muir, who has been in the saddle for 20 of his races and partnered him to 1 of his wins — a working relationship built on familiarity rather than fireworks.

His last six runs have produced nothing better than a fifth place, and he has gone winless across that entire stretch. At his age and at his level, that is not unusual — horses like Prince Hector rarely go on long winning streaks. But his record at Wolverhampton suggests that when the right race comes up at the right track, on normal ground over a staying trip, there is still one more moment in him yet.