Torquay Road

The seven-year-old has built a career record of 3 wins and 6 places from 21 races, a win rate of roughly 1 in every 7 outings at 14%. That's modest on paper, but the numbers look sharper when you zoom in on the conditions that suit it. On wet or muddy ground, Torquay Road has won 2 of just 4 races — a 50% win rate that is genuinely striking. Find it on a soft day at the right track and you are looking at a different horse entirely.

The partnership with jockey Danny Gilligan is one of the more interesting threads in its story. Together they have won 2 from 5 races — 40%, which means they win roughly 2 in every 5 times they line up as a pair. For context, most jockey-horse combinations that aren't specifically trained together would do well to hit 15 or 20%. When Gilligan is in the saddle, something clearly clicks.

Collins's yard has sent out 20 winners already this season, so this is a team that knows how to get a horse to the track ready to run. Torquay Road raced just yesterday and remains active, with its last win coming at Galway back in October 2025 — about eight months ago now. The recent form reads 6-7-2-6-3-4, which tells you the wins have dried up over the last six runs, with a couple of placed efforts mixed in to suggest it hasn't completely lost its way. A horse that has gone six races without winning can start to look like it's declining, but given everything this one does well — the soft ground, the course record at Sligo, the Gilligan combination — it feels more like a horse waiting for its moment than one that has run out of them.