Tara Iti

The majority of Tara Iti's career has been spent in Class 5, which is the bread-and-butter level of British racing — competitive enough that you have to earn everything, but not the rarefied air of the big occasions. At that level, it has won 5 of 30 races, roughly 1 in every 6, which is a solid return. More eye-catching is its record at Fontwell Park, a quirky figure-of-eight track in West Sussex that catches plenty of horses out. Tara Iti has won twice from 7 visits there — a 1-in-3.5 ratio that tells you the track suits it in a meaningful way.

Trained by Barry Brennan at Upper Lambourn in Berkshire, a yard that has sent out 6 winners already this season, Tara Iti's most frequent partner in the saddle is Rob Hargreaves, who has ridden it in 9 of its races for 1 win together — roughly 1 in every 9, which is modest but not unusual for a horse at this level. The partnership has not quite clicked into something special, but they keep coming back to each other.

The honest caveat is that recent form makes for sobering reading. Tara Iti has not won in its last 6 races, finishing no better than fifth in that run, and its last victory came at Uttoxeter in June 2025 — a year ago. Racing a year without a win is a long wait, and the sequence of 5th, 8th, 6th, 7th, and two non-completions suggests a horse that is currently finding winners out of reach. It raced just yesterday, so the yard are clearly keen to keep it active and find the right opportunity.

The first win came at Plumpton in January 2022, and the career since has been a steady, unpretentious story of turning up and competing. Whether another win is around the corner is the question Barry Brennan's yard will be working to answer.