Tango Flare

Across a 28-race career, Tango Flare has won 5 times and placed a further 11, meaning it has come home in the first three in well over half its races. That is a solid, consistent record for a horse at this level — it rarely runs a stinker. The first career win came at Cork back in May 2023, and the horse has been building steadily since. Most recently, it won at Fairyhouse just three weeks ago, and raced again only yesterday — so this is a horse firmly in the thick of its season, racing with confidence.

The recent form reads 2-1-18-9-2-1, which tells an interesting story. Ignore that 18th and 9th — every horse has off-days — because either side of those results, Tango Flare has been finishing first or second with real regularity. Winning 2 of its last 6 races is a strong return and suggests it is in good form right now.

Much of that form has been built with jockey Luke McAteer in the saddle. Together they have won 3 races from 14, winning roughly 1 in every 5 they've contested as a partnership — and that includes those 3 Fairyhouse victories. An established rider-horse partnership at a track they both clearly know well is exactly the kind of detail that makes a horse worth watching.

Patrick T Foley trains Tango Flare from a yard in Bagenalstown, County Carlow, and it has been a productive season for the team — 12 winners sent out already this term. Foley runs a busy, no-nonsense operation, and Tango Flare is evidently one of his more reliable performers. If this horse turns up at Fairyhouse again, it will arrive as one of the most in-form animals in the field.