The Long Walk

That single win came at Warwick on 21 May 2025, and it remains the high point of a career that has otherwise been defined by near-misses and minor placings. Since then, The Long Walk has gone six races without winning, which at Class 4 level — the fourth tier of British racing, broadly the point where horses are competitive without being stars — means running against fields where a win is genuinely within reach. A 17% win rate at that level works out to roughly one win in every six attempts, so the Warwick success was not a fluke, but it has not been repeated.

What makes the association with jockey Jonjo O'Neill Jr worth noting is that the two have now teamed up six times without finding the winner's enclosure together. That is not necessarily a damning record — horses and jockeys go through barren spells as a matter of course — but it does mean the partnership is still waiting for its moment. The yard behind the horse, trained by Jonjo O'Neill Sr and A.J. O'Neill at Cheltenham, has sent out 51 winners this season, which tells you this is a operation that knows how to get horses to win. The Long Walk has simply not been among them recently.

Raced just one day ago, this is a horse still very much in action, still being aimed at races, still presumably expected to add to that solitary win. Whether Warwick turns out to be a one-off or the start of something more consistent is the question worth watching.