Tom Desjy

That victory came at Southwell on 11 May 2026, and it matters because of what surrounds it. Look at the last six races and you see a horse that had been rattling around in the lower reaches of the results — finishing 15th and 10th before gradually pulling himself back into contention with a third place, then a second, and now a first. That is not random noise; that is a horse trending in one clear direction.

Warren Greatrex trains him out of Upper Lambourn in Berkshire, and this is a yard that knows what it is doing right now — 50 winners sent out already this season, which is the kind of output that tells you the horses are in good order and the team is operating well. When a yard is firing like that, even a horse who took a while to get off the mark carries more significance than the bare record suggests.

The one area where Tom Desjy's numbers tell a more cautious story is at Class 4 level, where he has run three times without winning. That is not unusual for a horse still working his way through the grades, but it is worth watching. His win last week came from the same level, so perhaps the penny has finally dropped — or perhaps Southwell simply suits him in a way other tracks have not. Either way, he is a horse to keep on the right side of while the momentum is with him. Horses in form are horses worth following, and right now, Tom Desjy is both.