Stage Show

Those two wins are worth looking at closely. The first came at Exeter in October 2025, and the second at Salisbury in May 2026 — six weeks ago, so the memory is fresh. Salisbury is a flat, sweeping track where stamina matters, and that fits with where Stage Show tends to perform best: over a mile and six furlongs to two miles, it has won 1 from 8 races at around 12%, or roughly 1 in 8. That is noticeably better than its overall record, and it suggests this is a horse that wants a proper test of distance rather than a sprint finish.

The bulk of Stage Show's career has been spent at Class 5 level — the bread-and-butter end of British racing, where fields are competitive but the prize money is modest. It has won just 1 of those 23 Class 5 races, a rate of about 1 in 23, which tells you this is not a horse dominating its level. The recent form reads 3-8-1-6-5-6 — a win in there (that Salisbury success), but surrounded by finishes that suggest it can be inconsistent.

Trainer Alexandra Dunn runs a small yard out of West Buckland in Somerset and has sent out 6 winners this season — a solid return for an operation of that size. Gavin Sheehan has ridden Stage Show seven times without a win, though the Salisbury victory came with a different partnership, which is a small but interesting detail. Stage Show raced just yesterday, so it is clearly in active work, and with its best distance profile still being tested, there may be more to come from a horse that has already shown it can get to the winner's enclosure when conditions suit.