State Of Madness

The career arc is worth noting. State Of Madness did not break its duck until October 2025 at Brighton, taking until its career was well underway before finally getting off the mark. But since then it has found the winner's enclosure twice more, most recently at Newcastle in December 2025 — and recent form of 5-2-3-4-1-2 shows a horse that has been genuinely competitive. Two wins and two places in the last six races is the form of a horse that has clicked into gear rather than one that is fading.

The partnership with jockey Joanna Mason has not clicked yet — zero wins from five races together is a sequence that will interest anyone watching the entries — but that says nothing definitive about the horse itself, which has clearly found the winning feeling under other riders. Mark Loughnane's yard at Rock Farm in Worcestershire has been in fine form this season, sending out 26 winners, and a trainer operating at that level of output tends to know exactly where and when to place a horse to give it every chance. State Of Madness looks like a horse that has found its feet, and with a last run of just days ago showing it is fit and active, there could be more to come.