Scoresby

The overall career record reads two wins and two places from eight races, meaning Scoresby has finished in the top three in exactly half of its outings. A 25% win rate — roughly one win in every four races — is a solid return, and the fact that both victories have arrived within the last couple of months suggests this is a horse hitting form at exactly the right time. The first win came at Fontwell Park in early May 2026, and then Scoresby backed it up with another at Worcester on 1 July. Two wins in under two months, after a spell of blanks, is the kind of sequence that makes trainers sit up and start thinking about what comes next.

Harry Ryall trains Scoresby from a yard in Crewkerne, Somerset — a smaller operation that has sent out one winner this season, which means Scoresby is responsible for the whole of the yard's success so far. That is not a small thing. For a modest-sized training set-up, having a horse in this kind of form is the engine that keeps everything moving. Ryall will be watching closely to see whether Scoresby can build on this momentum or whether the recent victories represent a peak that's hard to sustain.

What makes Scoresby genuinely interesting is the age factor. At nine years old, horses have typically shown you most of what they've got. They're experienced, set in their ways, and surprises become rarer. So when a nine-year-old suddenly strings two wins together in quick succession, it raises a real question — is this a late-career purple patch, or has something changed in how the horse is being campaigned? Either way, Scoresby raced just one day ago and is currently active, which means this story is still being written.