Schmilsson

The profile that has emerged over those 29 races is pretty clear. Schmilsson is a stayer — he does his best work over two miles or more, where he has won 4 of 13 races, or nearly 1 in 3. That is a meaningful number. Over shorter trips the form drops off noticeably, so the team at Olly Murphy's yard in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, have clearly learned to play to his strengths. Murphy himself is having a tremendous season — 146 winners sent out already — and Schmilsson is part of a well-oiled operation that knows how to place a horse.

Normal ground suits him best. On a standard surface he has won 3 of 11 races, which again is close to that 1-in-3 mark. He is not the type you want to back when the weather has been wild in either direction — he wants conditions that are straightforward, and on those days he turns up ready to run.

His partnership with jockey Sean Bowen has been one of the more productive combinations in his career. The pair have raced together seven times and won twice — a win rate of roughly 1 in 3.5, or 29%, which comfortably outperforms Schmilsson's overall career average of about 1 in 6. When Bowen is in the saddle, something clearly clicks.

Recent form tells a compelling story: in his last six races, Schmilsson has won two of them and finished in the top five every single time. That is the kind of consistency that suggests a horse in good health and good heart. He last won at Perth on 8 June 2025, and with a run just yesterday, the team are keeping him busy. He first announced himself with a win at Bath back in May 2022, and three years on he is still very much in the mix. For a horse operating mostly at Class 4 level — solid, competitive mid-tier racing — he is exactly what you want: dependable, improving in the right conditions, and in the hands of people who know exactly what they have got.