Samra Star

Those Wolverhampton wins bookend a meaningful chapter of this horse's career. The first came on 16 August 2024, and the most recent on 16 February 2026 — just three months ago — which tells you this is not some distant flicker of form. Samra Star is still operating at a competitive level and raced as recently as yesterday. The bulk of its races have come at Class 5, the everyday bread-and-butter level of the sport, and at that level it has won 3 from 14, or roughly 1 in every 5 — a noticeably better ratio than its overall record suggests. It finds its right level and performs.

The last six runs read 2-8-3-4-4-6, which means a second place most recently but no win in that stretch. Jockey Kaiya Fraser has partnered Samra Star in six of those races without getting their nose in front, which is a combination still searching for its moment together. Trainer Linda Perratt, based in East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, has had 19 winners out of the yard this season, so there is plenty of life in the operation. The question for Samra Star is straightforward: get it back to Wolverhampton, and the formbook says respect it. Anywhere else, it has spent most of its career making up the numbers.