Tommie Beau

Fakenham is where Tommie Beau seems most at home. Three wins from just 6 races there — exactly half — tells you this is more than coincidence. His most recent win came on 4 May 2026, reclaiming a trophy the yard had won four years earlier at the same track. His owners, Simon and Christine Prout, were there for it, and trainer Seamus Mullins was quick to credit the horse for carrying the team through what has been a genuinely difficult period — Mullins and his wife both recovering from cancer, with Tommie Beau providing a constant, steadying thread of good news through hard times. That is not a small thing.

Where Tommie Beau really excels is at Class 3 level, one step below the top tier of British racing. He has won 7 of his 17 races at that level — 41%, or close to 1 in every 2.5 races — which is the kind of number that suggests a horse who is exactly as good as he needs to be at exactly the right grade. He has also shown he can step up: two Class 2 wins, at Sedgefield in October 2023 and Cartmel in May 2024, prove he is no ordinary performer.

Jockey Micheal Nolan has been Tommie Beau's regular partner for most of that journey — 8 wins from 29 races together, a win rate of 28% — though the partnership hit a bump at Cheltenham in November 2024, where the horse ran out. The trainer has been candid that they haven't returned to Cheltenham since, a combination of that incident and an abandoned race in October. That changes soon. Mullins has been preparing Tommie Beau with a spin around the Larkhill cross-country course, with the Glenfarclas Chase at Cheltenham the target — a big, prestigious cross-country race over banks and ditches that the horse showed a natural liking for in his previous visit. Seamus Mullins keeps things simple. He has said himself that trainers can overcomplicate matters and fret unnecessarily — Tommie Beau, he reckons, just keeps giving. Ten winners from his yard this season suggests he is doing something right.