Tedworth

That one win, though, finally arrived at Tramore on 19 April 2026, and it matters. Tramore is a tight, quirky track on the south coast of Ireland that suits horses with a particular style, and Tedworth clearly took to it. After years of near-misses and mid-pack finishes, crossing the line first there was a genuine moment — the sort of thing that reminds you why people follow horses through the lean times. Six weeks on, that win still stands as the defining chapter of its career.

The recent form is actually encouraging. Reading it from the back forward — 6th, 4th, 11th, then a win, a 4th, and a fall or pulled-up last time out — there is a horse that found something at Tramore and has been running respectably either side of it. The 11th before the win looks like a blip rather than a trend, and the 4th since suggests it has held its level. At six years old, Tedworth is not a young horse still learning the job — it knows what it is doing, which makes that Tramore win feel less like a fluke and more like a horse finally getting conditions that suited it.

John Shinnick has ridden Tedworth six times without getting the partnership into the winner's enclosure, which is a tough run for any jockey-horse combination. Trainer Michael Barry's yard has sent out just one winner this season, so this is a small operation without big numbers behind it. What it does have is that Tramore win — proof that Tedworth can get there when everything clicks. Whether it can do it again is the question every racing fan asks of a horse like this, and the answer is never guaranteed. But anyone writing Tedworth off entirely would be making the same mistake people made before April.