Square d'Alboni

The most striking number in Square d'Alboni's record is what happens over long distances. In races run over two miles or more, this horse has won two from three — that's a 67% win rate, which in racing terms borders on extraordinary. Most horses at this level are happy to win one in four or five. Winning two out of three suggests that stamina is this horse's genuine weapon, and that the yard — sorry, that the team — have figured out where it belongs.

Dan Skelton's yard at Alcester in Warwickshire has sent out 198 winners this season alone. That is a factory of form, and it means Square d'Alboni is not a pet project or a hopeful experiment — it is a horse being placed with precision by one of the most productive operations in Britain right now. When Skelton's horses travel, they tend to arrive ready.

The horse's regular partner in the saddle is Hector Crouch, who has ridden it six times and won twice — a 33% win rate together, which is a genuinely productive partnership. That consistency between horse and jockey matters more than it might seem. Racing is full of combinations that never quite click; this one clearly has.

Square d'Alboni also has a notable result on its CV at the top level. A win in a Class 2 race at Epsom Downs in August 2024 — one of the sport's most iconic tracks — announced it as a horse capable of rising to a big occasion. Since then it has competed regularly at Class 2 level, winning one in four at that grade, and given the form it is showing right now, another big-race moment does not feel far away.