Tiberius Thunder

That single win came at Dundalk on Valentine's Day 2025 — and it remains the only time Tiberius Thunder has reached the winner's enclosure. Sixteen months have passed since, and across the 6 races since that night, the best he has managed is a third place. His recent run of form reads 3-4-7-–-4-5, which tells a frustrating story: present, often somewhere in the mix, but drifting rather than improving. The seventh-place finish in the middle of that sequence is the kind of run that suggests something was not quite right that day.

The most intriguing detail in his profile is the partnership with David Egan, who has ridden him five times without a win — 0 from 5. That is not necessarily anyone's fault; jockey-horse partnerships can simply fail to click, and five races is a relatively small sample. But it is the kind of stat that quietly raises a question: would a change in the saddle change anything?

Where Tiberius Thunder does look more like a proper racehorse is at distances of a mile and one to a mile and two furlongs. He has won 1 of his 3 races at those trips — a 33% win rate, or roughly 1 in 3 — which stands in sharp contrast to his record everywhere else. Trainer Robson De Aguiar has sent out 16 winners from his Mullingar yard this season, so the operation clearly knows how to get horses winning. The question is whether they can find the right race to give Tiberius Thunder his second moment in the spotlight. He raced just yesterday, so that search is very much ongoing.