Redarna

The overall record — 6 wins and 11 places from 39 races — tells a story of consistency rather than dominance. That works out to winning roughly 1 in every 6 or 7 races, which sounds modest until you consider that Redarna regularly lines up in Class 2 races, which are among the top races in Britain. At that level, 1 win from 13 races (about 8%) is actually a perfectly respectable account of yourself. This is not a horse punching below its weight — it has spent most of its career taking on serious competition.

The place to really appreciate Redarna, though, is Ayr. Three wins from 11 races there makes it a genuine course specialist, and that is a meaningful thing. Some horses simply respond to a particular track — the layout, the camber, the atmosphere — and Ayr has clearly always suited this one. The most recent of those wins came on 18 September 2025, which means that at 12, Redarna was still good enough to beat a field at one of the top level. That first career win also came at Ayr, back in September 2021, so there is a neat symmetry to the story there.

Conditions matter too. On wet or muddy ground, Redarna has won 2 from 7 races — a win rate of 29%, or roughly 1 in 3. That is a significant jump from the overall average and worth knowing. When the forecast is grim, this horse tends to show up. The team at Dianne Sayer's yard in Hackthorpe, Cumbria, have clearly learned how to place Redarna well — Sayer has sent out 15 winners already this season, which speaks to a yard operating with real confidence.

The recent form (finishing sixth, sixth, twelfth, twelfth, fourth, then first) is a bit of a rollercoaster, and those back-to-back twelfth-place finishes suggest this is a horse that has its off days. But the win before that slump is a reminder that when everything clicks — the right track, the right ground, the right day — Redarna can still do the business at 12 years old. That is genuinely rare.