Stride On

The six-year-old is trained by the partnership of Lucinda Russell and Michael Scudamore, based at Milnathort in Perth and Kinross — a yard that has been in fine form this season, sending out 49 winners. When a horse comes from a stable operating at that kind of volume and still manages to stand out, it means something.

Stride On opened its account at Newcastle in January 2025, then added a second win at Ayr in February 2026. That gap between victories might look long on paper, but the recent form tells a more interesting story: over the last six races, the sequence reads third, first, second, unplaced, first, second — a horse that is finishing in the top three almost every time it runs. Two wins and two runner-up finishes from six races is the kind of record that makes opponents nervous.

At Class 4 level — the bread-and-butter tier of British racing, a step below the big occasions — Stride On has won 1 from 3, roughly one in every three races at that level. That is not a horse finding things easy; it is a horse competing reliably and holding its own. With a race just yesterday, Stride On is very much in the thick of an active campaign, and with a yard firing on all cylinders behind it, there is no obvious reason to think the winning has stopped.