Romantic Spirit

Across its career, Romantic Spirit has won 4 times from 17 races — roughly 1 in every 4 outings — and has placed on 7 further occasions, meaning it has finished in the money more than half the time. That is a useful, consistent profile. It does its best work on normal ground conditions, winning 4 of its 11 races on a standard surface, which works out at about 1 in every 3 races — a noticeably better return than on any other type of going. The pattern is clear: put this horse on a normal track under normal conditions and you are getting the best version of it.

The most recent win came at Southwell on 30 October 2025, and the six most recent results — 7, 7, 5, 4, 1, 2 — tell a story of a horse that dipped out of form for a while before that victory, with a couple of promising runs sandwiched around it. Since that win, the form figures have drifted back toward mid-field, though the horse raced just one day ago and remains very much in active campaign. Robert Havlin has been the regular partner, riding Romantic Spirit in 5 of its races and winning 1 of them — a 20% win rate that mirrors the horse's overall record fairly closely.

Menuisier's yard has been in fine shape this season, sending out 20 winners, so the operation behind Romantic Spirit is clearly functioning well. Most of its races have come at Class 5 level — the bread-and-butter tier of British racing — where it has won 3 of 13 starts, or roughly 1 in 4. It has not yet been asked to step up to the big occasions, but at this level, with a course it loves and a trainer in form, Romantic Spirit is exactly the kind of horse that makes a day at Wolverhampton worth watching.