Queen Aethelflaed

Her first win came at Thurles back in October 2025, and her most recent came at Gowran Park just three weeks ago in June 2026 — so she's in the form of her life right now. That Gowran Park win was the latest in a sequence that, reading her recent results backwards, shows a horse that has been running into the placings consistently after a couple of forgettable efforts earlier. She raced just yesterday, which means she's being kept busy by trainer Andrew Slattery, and that's worth paying attention to.

Slattery operates out of Thurles in County Tipperary and has sent out 62 winners this season alone — that's not a small yard having a lucky run, that's a trainer with real momentum behind him. When a yard in that kind of form keeps putting a horse back on the track in quick succession, it usually means they're happy with how she's going. Queen Aethelflaed is hardly a household name yet, but she's a horse ticking along nicely at her right distance, trained by someone currently firing on all cylinders. The combination makes her worth keeping an eye on.