The Dog Thief

The story begins at Market Rasen in March 2026, where The Dog Thief broke its duck for the first time. What makes that interesting isn't just the win itself but what followed — because rather than fading back into the pack, the horse came out again and won at Perth just this week, on 24 April. Back-to-back wins at two different tracks, separated by over a month, suggests this isn't a fluke or a one-track wonder. It's a horse in form, and in racing, form is everything.

Behind the horse is a yard that clearly knows what it's doing right now. T Ellis has sent out 24 winners already this season from Rugby — that's a stable operating with real momentum, and horses trained by people in that kind of groove tend to keep performing. The Dog Thief raced just yesterday, so it's fresh in everyone's minds, and its recent record of first, first, second tells you it is almost never out of the picture when it lines up.

Three races is a short career, and there will be harder tests to come. But for a horse that wins two-thirds of the time, finished second in its only other outing, and is currently on a two-race winning streak, The Dog Thief has given its the yard — sorry, its team — every reason to be excited about what comes next.