Uzincso

The curious detail about Uzincso is how much the surface matters to him. He is a creature of the all-weather, where his racing rating of 83 is genuinely 5 pounds higher than his turf form would suggest. Six of his two career wins came on artificial ground, and that advantage is so pronounced that Butler keeps returning him to the all-weather where he belongs. His last victory, at Kempton Park on 15 September 2025, came on that surface—now a full year in the past, a gap that hints at how hard he is finding wins at his current level. In recent races he has been placing regularly (he has finished in the frame in 13 of his 46 outings), but the wins have dried up. His last six races have yielded two fourth-place finishes, a third, and three worse efforts, a run that suggests the handicapper may have pitched him just slightly beyond his ceiling.

What makes Uzincso genuinely worth watching is that he remains active and competitive in Class 4 company, racing just days ago. At ten years old, with Butler still running him and still believing there is something left in the tank, Uzincso belongs to that small tribe of horses that simply will not accept retirement. He may not win often, but he wins his races. For a trainer whose yard has sent out 39 winners this season, Uzincso represents the journeyman that fills out a stable—valuable precisely because he is always ready, always trying, and always turning up when the work needs doing.