Tashan

The profile gets more interesting when you look at Class 4 races specifically — the bread-and-butter level where most of Tashan's career has been spent. At that level, the horse has won 3 from 6, a 50% win rate. That's flipping a coin and landing heads. It suggests Tashan is comfortably good enough for this grade, and the natural question becomes whether there's a step up in class on the horizon.

Emma Lavelle trains Tashan out of Ogbourne Maizey in Wiltshire, a yard that has been in fine form this season with 41 winners sent out — not a small number, and a sign that horses leaving that stable are arriving at the track ready to perform. Lavelle's team first got Tashan to the winner's enclosure at Warwick in November 2024, and the horse hasn't looked back since, winning 3 of its last 6 races. The most recent victory came at Exeter in November 2025, four months ago. Since then, the last two runs have been blanks, though a fourth-place finish is hardly a disgrace — it means Tashan was competitive but just didn't quite get there on the day.

Raced just yesterday and currently active, Tashan is very much a horse in the middle of its story rather than at the end of it. Five years old, building a record that already looks stronger than most horses manage across an entire career — this is one to keep an eye on.