Silca Bay

The standout story with Silca Bay is Kempton Park. Three wins from 9 races at the same venue is the kind of number that makes trainers mark it in the diary — that is 1 win in every 3 visits, which in racing terms borders on remarkable. Kempton is an all-weather track with a particular flat, fast-turning shape, and some horses simply take to it like it was built for them. Silca Bay appears to be one of those. The most recent win there came on 29 October 2025, and that is where the career started too, with a first win on 20 August 2025 at the same venue. The horse essentially discovered itself at Kempton and keeps coming back to prove the point.

Conditions matter too. On wet or muddy ground, Silca Bay has won 3 of 9 races — 1 in 3 — which is a sharp improvement on its overall record and suggests this is a horse that finds something extra when the ground gets testing. Pair that with its preferred trip of seven furlongs to a mile, where it has won 2 of 7 races, and the picture comes into focus: soft ground, a mile-ish trip, Kempton Park. That combination has been the recipe.

Charles Bishop has been the regular jockey, riding 6 of those 17 races and winning 2 of them — 1 in every 3 rides together, which is a strong partnership by any measure. The yard behind the horse is Eve Johnson Houghton's operation in Blewbury, Oxfordshire, which has been in fine form this season with 42 winners sent out. A trainer in that kind of rhythm tends to have horses placed exactly where they can win, and Silca Bay's course record suggests the targeting has been spot on.

Recent form reads 4-14-4-4-5-1 — that win seven months ago bookended by a run of mid-field finishes, which is honest rather than spectacular. The horse raced just one day ago and is clearly still active. Whether another Kempton entry is on the agenda, on a wet autumn afternoon, is a question worth watching.