Sonnerie Power

The trainer quote from September 2024 tells you something useful about how Sonnerie Power arrived at the David Killahena and Graeme McPherson yard in Stow-on-the-Wold. He came over from the Roger Varian operation, one of the more respected yards in the country, and took a while to find his feet in his new surroundings. The team were patient, dropped him into softer company, and backed their judgment that a win was coming. They were right — he won at Kempton Park in January 2026, his most recent victory, and that form on artificial all-weather surfaces is where he genuinely seems to thrive. His two wins on wet or muddy ground stand out too: 2 from 13 on that surface gives him a 15% win rate, which is nearly double his overall average. In other words, when conditions turn soft, he quietly becomes a different horse.

His recent run of form reads 1-5-7-6-2-6 in reverse, so that January win sits at the head of a sequence that has since tailed off somewhat. He raced just a day ago, so this is a horse very much in the thick of it. What does not quite add up is his record with jockey Cieren Fallon — 0 wins from 8 races together is a curiosity, though without knowing more about which races those were, it would be unfair to read too much into it.

The yard has sent out 18 winners this season, which tells you this is not a struggling operation. Sonnerie Power is not their star, but he is a consistent, honest performer who races mostly at Class 5 level and occasionally rewards patience. At 37 races in, you know exactly what you are getting — and sometimes, that reliability is its own kind of charm.