Queenie St Clair

The six-year-old is trained by Nick Scholfield out of Lambourn in Berkshire, a yard that has been in excellent health this season, sending out 19 winners. Queenie St Clair has clearly been part of that momentum. She raced at Kelso just eight days ago and won — her third victory in her last six races — and with recent form reading 1-–-1-3-1-6, she looks a horse very much in the thick of things right now. That run of results, with only a sixth place and a third interrupting the wins, tells you this is not a horse limping along on past glories. She is winning right now.

What makes her particularly interesting is how specific the conditions need to be for her to fire. On slightly soft, wet ground she has won 2 of 4 races — that is a 50% win rate, which in horse racing terms is extraordinary. Most horses win roughly 1 in every 10 races they enter across a career; Queenie St Clair on a damp track is winning every other time out. Her preferred trip of a mile and six furlongs to two miles suits a horse with stamina and staying power rather than electric speed, and at Class 4 level — the bread and butter of the racing calendar — she has again won half her races, 2 from 4.

Colin Keane has ridden her nine times and managed one win together, which works out at roughly 1 in every 9 — decent, though not as eye-catching as her overall recent form. Her career started with a first win at Naas back in October 2023, and since then she has accumulated four wins and eight places from 31 races in total, earning her place as a reliable and now increasingly dangerous competitor at her level. When the ground is soft, the trip is long, and the form book says she is firing — this is a horse worth watching very closely.