Talk To The Man

The career record reads one win and one place from five races, a 20% win rate, or roughly 1 in every 5 outings, which sounds modest until you understand the context. This horse has not raced much because it was not ready to race much. Its first career win only came on 3 February 2026 at Taunton, and Nicholls was quick to point out that the horse it beat that day was no pushover. After the race, he was already talking about Aintree — one of the most famous racecourses in the world — as the next target. You do not mention Aintree unless you think you have something genuinely good on your hands.

Nicholls also flagged that Talk To The Man could easily be even better over longer distances — three miles, in his estimation — and that the horse has the physical quality to go jumping fences rather than hurdles in the future, which in jump racing terms is often where the very best horses end up. The yard has sent out 92 winners this season alone, so Nicholls knows what a good horse looks like. The fact that he is singling this one out as exciting, in those exact words, tells you something. Still only six, still lightly raced, and apparently impressive enough on the gallops at home to make his trainer talk about him the way he has been — Talk To The Man is a horse worth keeping an eye on.