Ten Pounds

The headline statistic is the ground. Put Ten Pounds on wet or muddy turf and it has won every single time — three races, three victories, a perfect record. That is not a coincidence; that is a horse that comes alive in conditions most of its rivals find hard work. It is the kind of edge that a sharp team can exploit all winter, and Ramsden's yard, which has already sent out five winners this season, clearly knows when to aim this horse and when to hold back.

The partnership with jockey Trevor Whelan is worth highlighting too. Together they have won four of their nine races — that is nearly one in every two times they line up together, a remarkable hit rate by any measure. When a jockey and horse click like that, it tends to be more than luck. Whelan clearly understands this horse, and the results speak for themselves.

Ten Pounds has also shown a particular fondness for Newcastle, winning two of its three races there. But the standout moment on the CV is the win at Kempton Park on the all-weather surface on 1st October 2025 — a Class 2 victory that confirmed this horse can perform at a high level on more than one surface and more than one track. Earlier in 2025 came another Class 2 win at Newmarket, one of the most prestigious venues in the country. This is not a horse scraping wins at the bottom of the ladder.

The recent form shows a dip — finishing eighth, eighth, and thirteenth in its last three outings before racing again just yesterday — so the immediate question is whether the Kempton peak can be reached again. But a horse with a 33% win rate across fifteen races, three course-and-distance specialisms, and a perfect record on wet ground has earned the benefit of the doubt. Ten Pounds is the kind of horse worth keeping an eye on the moment the rain starts to fall.