Tan Rapido

The most recent victory came at Lingfield Park just this week, making Tan Rapido one of the freshest winners you'll find anywhere in British racing right now. That's the third win of a career that began with a breakthrough at Windsor back in July 2023, so there's been genuine progression over three seasons. The recent form before that Lingfield win looked patchy — a string of mid-field finishes with numbers like 7-5-7-8 — which makes the victory feel all the more like a well-timed surge rather than the result of steady momentum.

What's quietly curious about Tan Rapido is where those wins have come from. The horse has run eight times at Class 4 level — the bread-and-butter tier of British racing, where plenty of horses find their comfort zone — and has drawn a blank in every single one. Not one win from eight attempts at that level. Yet the wins have come anyway, suggesting this is a horse that can raise its game when the circumstances are right, even if consistency at a standard level has proved elusive.

In the saddle most often is Kieran Shoemark, who has ridden Tan Rapido in 7 of those 19 races and partnered the horse to 1 win — a win rate of around 1 in 7 together. Behind the scenes, the operation is run by Charlie Fellowes, a trainer based in Newmarket who has sent out 21 winners already this season. That's a yard in good form, and a horse that just added to the tally at exactly the right moment.