Stratusnine

The most recent win came at Wolverhampton back in December 2025 — six months ago now — which followed an earlier success at Ayr in July 2024. Two wins from 12 races tells you this is a horse operating at a competitive level where beating the field is genuinely hard work. Most of Stratusnine's racing has come at Class 3, one of the mid-to-upper tiers of British racing, and at that level the record reads 1 win from 4 races — winning 1 in every 4 — which is actually a decent return when you consider the quality of competition involved.

The recent form makes for slightly awkward reading: two second-place finishes bookend a fifth and a couple of gaps, with no win to show for any of it. Seconds are the cruelest result in racing — close enough to suggest the ability is there, far enough away to leave everyone wondering what it would take to tip the balance. Still, Stratusnine raced just yesterday and remains very much an active part of Hugo Palmer's operation.

Palmer trains out of Malpas in Cheshire and has sent out 66 winners already this season — a yard clearly in good form and not short of ammunition. That Stratusnine keeps getting runs suggests the team believes there's another win in the horse. Whether the Wolverhampton success in December turns out to be a launchpad or a high point, the next few races will start to tell that story.