Ravenglass

The ground matters to Ravenglass. On normal conditions he wins roughly 1 in every 5 races — 2 wins from 10 — which is a genuinely solid record and well above his overall average. Get him on wet or dry extremes and he is a different proposition. He is also very much a middle-distance horse over seven furlongs to a mile, where four of his five career wins have come from 29 races at those trips. Take him much shorter or longer and you are swimming against the tide.

His partnership with jockey Joe Leavy is one of the more interesting threads in his story. Two wins from their 10 races together gives them a 20% win rate — wins 1 in every 5 — which is comfortably better than Ravenglass manages with anyone else. That kind of familiarity between horse and rider can make a real difference at this level, where small advantages count. Trainer Adrian Wintle, based at Westbury-On-Severn in Gloucestershire, has sent out 28 winners this season alone, suggesting a yard in good form.

The most recent win came at Chepstow on 13 May 2025 — nearly a year ago now — and he has not added to that tally in his last six outings, finishing no better than third in that spell. His form figures of 4-4-6-7-3-9 show a horse mixing solid placed efforts with some off days. He raced just yesterday, so he is as active as ever. At seven years old, with 57 races behind him, Ravenglass is not a horse of mystery — he is a known quantity. The question is simply whether the right conditions, the right trip, and Joe Leavy in the saddle can combine to get him back into the winner's enclosure.