Red Letter

The story really gets interesting when you look at where Red Letter does its best work. At The Curragh, Ireland's premier flat track, this horse has won 2 of its 7 races there — which sounds modest until you consider that most horses race at a track seven times without ever winning at all. It opened its account at The Curragh in July 2024, and then went back and won again on 30 August 2025. That is not a fluke. Horses who win repeatedly at the same track often have a genuine affinity for the way it rides, and The Curragh's long, sweeping straights seem to suit Red Letter down to the ground.

The preferred distance tells a similar story. Over a mile and one furlong to a mile and two furlongs — roughly the middle-distance range where speed meets stamina — Red Letter has won 2 of just 4 races. That is a 50% win rate at its favoured trip, which is a remarkable number at any level of the sport. Get the distance right, get the track right, and you have a horse that wins half the time.

Colin Keane, one of Ireland's leading jockeys, has been in the saddle for 8 of Red Letter's 11 races and has ridden it to 2 of its 3 wins — winning roughly 1 in every 4 times they have teamed up. The partnership looks settled, which matters. Trainer G M Lyons, operating out of Dunsany in County Meath, has sent out 43 winners already this season, so this is a yard in sharp form with the confidence to keep placing Red Letter in the right spots.

Recent form reads 1-1-3-3-2-3 going back from six races ago, meaning the two wins came first and the finishes have crept a little wider since. Red Letter raced just one day ago and is clearly a horse being kept busy. Whether another crack at The Curragh over its ideal trip is on the agenda, that is exactly the scenario where this horse becomes very hard to ignore.