The Kemble Brewery

The seven-year-old has won 6 of his 11 career races — that is a win rate of 55%, or just over 1 in every 2 races he enters. For context, most good racehorses win somewhere between 1 in 5 and 1 in 3 races across a career. Winning more than half your races is the kind of number you associate with something genuinely special. He has also placed in 9 of those 11 races, meaning he has almost never finished out of the money. His most recent win came just this week at Kelso, and his recent form reads 1-1-2, so he is not just sustaining that level — he appears to be building.

The headline result on his record is a Class 2 win at Cheltenham in October 2023, one of the top races in Britain. Cheltenham is the sport's most famous venue, and winning there at that level matters. Bailey has spoken about taking a step up in grade, and with a horse winning 1 in 2 races and producing form like this, that ambition looks entirely justified.

There is also a remarkable backstory that makes his career feel even more unlikely. At some point he sliced into a tendon at Cheltenham so badly that — in Bailey's own words — he came within millimetres of not being with us. The horse's owners, who run a pub in Cheltenham, were patient through that ordeal. The fact that he is now winning top races at Cheltenham and racing competitively at Kelso this week feels like a proper reward for that patience.

His most regular jockey is Tom Bellamy, who has ridden him to 3 wins from 6 races together — winning exactly half their partnership. Bailey and co-trainer Mat Nicholls have sent out 31 winners from their Cheltenham yard already this season, so this is a horse operating within a team in excellent current form. Laid-back or not, The Kemble Brewery keeps winning, and the plan is to find out just how good he can be.