Puturhandstogether

The headline on the CV, though, is a Class 1 win at Cheltenham on 11 March 2025. Cheltenham is the most prestigious jumps venue in the world, and winning a top-level race there is the kind of thing most horses never come close to. The fact that Puturhandstogether managed it puts this horse in genuinely elite company.

The partnership with jockey Mark Walsh is worth noting. Walsh has ridden the horse seven times and won twice — that is a win rate of roughly 1 in every 3 and a half rides together, or 29%, which is a strong record in any sport. When those two line up as a combination, the numbers say pay attention.

The recent form makes for more mixed reading: the last six results read 16-7-13-16-6-1, which tells the story of a horse that can look ordinary one day and competitive the next. That sole win in the sequence came just one day ago, so Puturhandstogether is bang in form right now — whatever clicked that day appears to be clicking again.

Trained by Joseph Patrick O'Brien at Owning Hill in County Kilkenny, this horse comes from one of the most productive yards in the sport this season — 171 winners and counting. O'Brien's operation does not run horses for the sake of it, so when Puturhandstogether takes its place in a field, it is there to be competitive. A horse that has won at Cheltenham, dominates at The Curragh, and just won yesterday deserves to be on your radar.