Satono Chevalier

The horse is trained by Aidan Melia out of Monasterevin, Co Kildare, a yard that has sent out two winners already this season. Jack Kearney is the jockey who knows this horse best, having ridden it nine times and won twice together — a win rate of roughly 1 in every 4.5 rides, or 22%, which is a genuinely strong partnership by any measure.

Dundalk is where Satono Chevalier has spent a huge chunk of its career, lining up there 19 times and winning 3 of them. That is 3 wins from 19 races at a single track, and while that might not sound dramatic, it represents real familiarity with a venue — Dundalk is an all-weather oval that rewards horses who learn its rhythms, and this one clearly has. The first career win came there in February 2023, and two more have followed since.

Where things get particularly interesting is over longer distances. At a mile and six furlongs up to two miles, Satono Chevalier has won 3 of 13 races — roughly 1 in every 4 — and those are the conditions that seem to unlock something in it. Stamina horses often need time to find their best, and at 8 years old, this one knows exactly what it is.

The most recent form makes for good reading too: a win, a third, and a second in its last three completed races, with that win coming at Navan just this week on 30 March 2026. That is a horse in form right now, not drifting through the tail end of a career. Whatever Aidan Melia's team has planned next, Satono Chevalier is going into it with momentum.