Prince Of India

What makes this profile genuinely interesting is the trajectory. Prince Of India began winning at Wolverhampton in March 2025, which is a respectable but unglamorous venue — the sort of place young horses find their feet. Within four months, he was winning at Newmarket's July meeting, one of the most prestigious fixtures on the flat racing calendar. Then, less than a month after that, he followed it up with a Class 2 win at Ascot — one of the top races in Britain, at arguably the most famous racecourse in the world. That is a serious step up in class, and he took it in his stride.

His love of fast, dry ground is worth noting. On that kind of surface, he has won 3 of his 4 races — a 75% win rate, which is extraordinary by any measure. Three wins from four attempts on dry ground means the moment the summer sun bakes the turf, Prince Of India becomes a genuine handful for his rivals. It also adds a useful layer of context to those big summer wins at Newmarket and Ascot — both came when conditions were in his favour.

He is trained by Marco Botti, whose Newmarket yard has sent out 40 winners already this season. That is a high-volume, well-organised operation, and the fact that they have been stepping Prince Of India up to top-level races rather than keeping him comfortable in easier company says something about the confidence the team has in him.

His recent form — finishing fifth and eighth in his last two runs — suggests he has had a couple of tougher outings since the Ascot win, and he raced 22 days ago, so he is being kept busy. A horse who wins 1 in 3 races overall and 3 in 4 on dry ground, with a Class 2 Ascot win already on his CV at just four years old, has every reason to be competing at the top level more regularly. Whether he can rediscover that summer form is the question worth watching.