Volez Vous

The overall picture is more modest. Across 19 races in total, Volez Vous has won twice and placed three more times — winning roughly 1 in every 9 races. That's a career that tells you this isn't an easy horse to win with, which makes the Clonmel record all the more striking. Both wins came in early 2025, the first on 27 February and the second exactly 28 days later on 27 March, suggesting the horse hit a rich vein of form at exactly the right time and place.

Since then, though, it's been a quieter story. The last six runs have produced finishes of 10th, a pulled-up or fell run, 13th, another blank, 9th, and 9th — a string of mid-field and tail-end results that suggests either the horse has lost its earlier spark, or the competition has been pitched too steeply. Benjamin P Kennedy, who rides it most regularly, has managed 1 win from their 6 races together — a 17% win rate that's actually decent given the horse's overall numbers.

P J Rothwell trains Volez Vous out of Tinahely in County Wicklow, and the yard has been in strong form this season with 35 winners on the board — so the infrastructure and knowhow is clearly there. The question is simply whether Volez Vous has another day like those two in early 2025 left in it. It raced just yesterday, which means it's very much active and in the mix. Whether another trip to Clonmel is on the agenda is unknown, but on the evidence so far, that's where the smart money on a good day would be.