Straight Ahead

Both of those wins came at Newcastle, the first on 22 November 2025 and the second on 20 December 2025 — just four weeks apart. Back-to-back wins at the same track in the space of a month is the kind of form that makes people pay attention, and it suggests Newcastle suits Straight Ahead very well indeed. Whether it's the track layout, the surface, or simply the level of competition, something about that course brings out the best in this horse.

Recent form tells an interesting story. The last six runs read 4-1-1-14-2-2, and while that 14th-place finish stands out as an obvious blip, the surrounding results are genuinely encouraging. Two wins sandwiched around a rough day, bookended by a pair of runner-up finishes — that's the profile of a horse that is competitive and consistent, not one that wins by accident. Straight Ahead has raced just once since that December victory, finishing fourth, and with that run coming only yesterday, there's clearly plenty more to come from this season.

Craig Lidster, who trains out of Norton in North Yorkshire, has had a productive season with 20 winners on the board. A yard in that kind of form is well worth following, and a three-year-old with two wins already to its name is exactly the sort of horse that can add to that tally. Most of Straight Ahead's racing has come at Class 5 level — the bread-and-butter tier of British racing — where it has won 1 from 4, around 1 in every 4 races at that grade. That's respectable, and if the team decides to step things up in class, the next few months will tell us a lot about just how good this young horse can be.