St Faz

Four wins from its last six races is the kind of run that gets people talking. That sequence tells you this is not a horse drifting towards the end of a career — it is a horse at the very top of its game right now. It raced just one day ago, and last week it won at Southwell. That brings its record at the Nottinghamshire track to three wins from just four visits, which is a quite extraordinary strike. To put that in perspective: most horses win roughly once in every seven or eight races at a given course. St Faz wins three out of four at Southwell. That is not coincidence; that is a horse that has found a home.

The distance matters too. St Faz is at its best when asked to travel between a mile and six furlongs and two miles — the longer, stamina-testing trips rather than a quick sprint. Over those distances it has won 5 of 12 races, a 42% win rate that is frankly exceptional at any level. Add to that its love of normal ground conditions, where it has won 4 of just 6 attempts — two in every three races — and you begin to see how the pieces fit together. Get St Faz to Southwell, on decent ground, over a proper distance, and the formbook suggests you are already most of the way to the winner's enclosure.

The trainer, Adrian Paul Keatley, has had 42 winners from his yard this season alone, which shows this is not a quiet operation — it is a team that knows how to get horses ready to run. Regular partner Phillip Enright has only converted 1 win from 9 rides together, an 11% return, but the horse's recent surge suggests the partnership may be finding its rhythm at just the right time. St Faz began winning back in July 2023 at Down Royal, and now, nearly three years on, it is running better than ever.