Top Jimmy

Both of his wins have come at Uttoxeter, the first in early October 2025 and the second just a few weeks later at the end of the same month. That kind of quick double at the same track is worth noting. Uttoxeter is a tight, turning circuit in Staffordshire that suits horses who travel smoothly and handle bends well — and Top Jimmy has shown twice now that he does exactly that. Finding a track you love and returning to win there again is no small thing in racing; plenty of horses spend entire careers without discovering that kind of affinity with a course.

His recent form reads 10, pulled up, then a second, a third, and those two wins — and he raced just yesterday, so he is very much in the thick of his season. The pulled-up run is the only blip in an otherwise respectable sequence, and a horse pulling up is not necessarily a cause for alarm; it can mean the race simply didn't suit on the day, or the ground was wrong. The trainer will know best.

That trainer is Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies, a father-and-son operation based at Naunton in the Gloucestershire countryside. This is one of the most established yards in jump racing, and with 61 winners sent out already this season, they are very much in form. Horses trained here tend to be placed with care, and the fact that Top Jimmy found winning form at Uttoxeter twice suggests the team identified that track as one where he could deliver — and were proved right. A yard firing at that volume this season is worth paying attention to, and so is any horse carrying their colours who already knows how to win.