Roger Pol

Roger Pol is eight years old and trained by Snowden at Lambourn, a yard that has sent out 82 winners already this season — so this is not a small operation, and Roger Pol has carved out a genuine place within it. His career record of 7 wins and 14 places from 23 races means he has finished in the top three more than nine times out of every ten races he's completed, which is the mark of a horse that rarely runs a bad race. He wins roughly 3 in every 10 times out, and places in most of the rest.

His go-to jockey is Gavin Sheehan, who has ridden him to 5 wins from 11 races together — that's nearly 1 in every 2 races they've paired up, which is a remarkably high hit rate and suggests the two have found a real understanding. Snowden has described Roger Pol as not very big, but a horse who "makes up in heart what he lacks in stature." That kind of toughness tends to show up in the numbers eventually, and it does here: he has a particular affinity for Uttoxeter, winning 2 of his 5 races there, which makes him one to watch whenever he returns to that track. He has also shown he travels — his most recent win came at Hexham in October 2025.

His recent form reads 9-6-7-1-1-3 going back through his last six races, meaning he hit a rich vein with back-to-back wins before things went quieter. He last raced just yesterday, so whatever happened in those most recent outings, he's clearly a horse being kept busy by a yard with plenty of confidence in him. At his level — Class 4, the bread-and-butter tier of British racing — he wins 3 in every 10, which is exactly what you'd hope for from a consistent, honest performer who turns up and does his job. Roger Pol is not a headline horse. He's the kind of horse you quietly fall for.