Royale Goodnight
Royale Goodnight is a 4-year-old with a frustratingly familiar story: a horse that found the win button once and has been chasing it ever since. The gelding broke through at Kempton Park in mid-September 2024, a maiden success that suggested better days lay ahead. Instead, the past two years have been a long search for a repeat. In 25 months without another victory, Royale Goodnight has managed only two top-3 finishes from six races—a 14% win rate that speaks to a horse operating at the outer limits of its ability, winning roughly 1 in every 7 races it runs.Based on TrackLab's analysis
Owner
Frost Acloque Lb Fw Clayton Godsal
📊 Key numbers
Career totals for this horse
🔍 Full analysis
Our model's view, based on this horse's career and recent runs
The recent form tells the story bluntly. Across the last six outings, there has been nothing remotely close to a win: a fifth, a fourth, a ninth, a 12th, a second, and an eighth. That second-place finish offered a glimmer, but it came sandwiched between two poor efforts, and there is no discernible pattern that suggests a return to form is imminent. The trainer, Harry Charlton at Beckhampton in Wiltshire, runs a yard that has been prolific this season with 38 winners, which only underlines how much Royale Goodnight has lagged behind the yard's main runners. The horse raced just a day ago, so it remains active on the circuit, but at this stage it looks like a horse battling to find a suitable level—either outclassed in the races it enters or simply not sharp enough to finish the job.
🎯 Where this horse runs best
Results split by ground, distance, race level and track shape
🌧 Ground
Standard to slow (all-weather)
Unknown
Standard (all-weather)
Unknown
Good (a little give)
Unknown
🏅 Race level
Class 4 (standard)
Unknown
Class 5 (entry-level)
Unknown
🏟 Track shape
Right-handed, long straights
Loves
Left-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, hilly
Unknown
📅 Recent runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
14 Oct
5th
Kempton Park
1m3f – 1m4f · 10 runners
1 Oct
4th
Salisbury
1m1f – 1m2f · Soft · 12 runners
9 Sep
9th
Kempton Park
1m1f – 1m2f · 14 runners
18 Apr
12th
Newbury
1m3f – 1m4f · Good · 16 runners
2 Apr
2nd
Southwell
1m3f – 1m4f · Standard · 5 runners
2 Nov
8th
Newmarket
1m1f – 1m2f · Soft · 9 runners
16 Sep
🏆 Won
Kempton Park
7f – 1m · Standard_To_Slow · 12 runners
🏇 Jockeys
Every jockey who has ridden this horse, most rides first
🏟 Course record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last run | Win rate |
|---|
| Kempton Park Galloping |
3 |
1 win, 2 other |
14 Oct |
33.3% |
| Newmarket Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
2 Nov |
0% |
| Southwell Galloping |
1 |
1 second |
2 Apr |
0% |
| Salisbury Undulating |
1 |
1 other |
1 Oct |
0% |
| Newbury Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
18 Apr |
0% |