Spicy Margarita

The recent form tells the story plainly. In the last six races, Spicy Margarita has finished eleventh, seventh, eighth, fourth, eighth, and fifth. That fourth-place finish is the closest it has come to winning in nearly two years. The horse is still racing — last out just a day ago — which means the trainer Robson De Aguiar, who runs a modest but productive yard at Mullingar in Westmeath, continues to believe there is something worth fighting for. De Aguiar's operation has sent out 16 winners this season, so the stable is clearly capable of producing results, even if this particular horse has not obliged since early 2025.

For a horse that has been racing this long with so little to show, there are two ways to read it. One is that Spicy Margarita is a genuine trier who simply lacks the class or speed required to win races at any meaningful level. The other is that the horse has found its level and will occasionally threaten to win without ever quite getting there. Either way, at four years old and without a victory in the last nineteen months, it is doing most of its racing now in hopes of that elusive second win rather than in any real expectation of regular success.