Sweet Kiss

Those wins, when they came, tell a fairly clear story about where Sweet Kiss belongs. Two of the three victories have arrived at Class 5 level — the kind of everyday, bread-and-butter races that form the backbone of the British racing calendar — and that 40% win rate at that level (2 wins from 5 races) is genuinely impressive. It suggests a horse that, when dropped into the right company, knows how to finish the job. The first career win came at Doncaster in August 2025, with the most recent at Pontefract the following month. Both are tracks with a long tradition of exactly this kind of competitive, no-nonsense racing.

The partnership with jockey David Allan is one area worth watching. Allan has ridden Sweet Kiss six times without a win — 0 from 6 — which on its own means little, but sits alongside the broader six-race winless run as a combination that the trainer Tim Easterby will want to change sooner rather than later. Easterby is one of the most prolific yards in the north, having sent out 128 winners already this season from his Great Habton base in North Yorkshire, so he is hardly short of horses running into form. The question is whether Sweet Kiss can rediscover the spark that made it so effective at its best level.

Having raced just yesterday, Sweet Kiss is as current as it gets. A horse that wins 1 in 5 across its career, dominates at Class 5, but is stuck in a ten-month dry spell — that is the profile of a horse one good run from reminding everyone what it can do. The talent is documented. The wait goes on.