Teed Up

At nine years old, Teed Up is an experienced campaigner with a career that tells an honest story. The overall numbers — 4 wins and 9 places from 32 races — paint a picture of a horse that is competitive without being exceptional, one that earns its keep and places regularly enough to keep the yard interested. But look closer and a clearer picture emerges. Over longer distances of two miles or more, Teed Up has won 4 of 21 races, nearly 1 in 5, which is a meaningful improvement on its general record and suggests it needs time and space to find its rhythm. Put it on wet or muddy ground and it improves further still: 2 wins from just 7 races in those conditions, approaching 1 in 3.

Conor Clarke is the jockey who brings the best out of it. Their record together reads 2 wins from 6 races — that's 1 in 3 — which stands well above the horse's overall win rate and suggests a genuine partnership worth noting. Mullins's yard has been in fine form this season, sending out 31 winners, so Teed Up is part of a stable that clearly knows how to get a horse ready to perform.

Recent form has been quiet — a run of 12-10-8-3-4-10 with no win in the last six races — but the last victory came at Galway as recently as 30 July 2025, eight months ago, which means this isn't a horse running on memory. It raced just 21 days ago and is still active. The straightforward conclusion is this: if Teed Up lines up at Galway on wet ground over a long trip, with Clarke in the saddle, it arrives carrying every single condition that has made it a winner before. That combination has worked four times already. There is no obvious reason it cannot work again.