Waardah

Waardah has raced just six times and already has three wins and three places to show for it, a record that works out to winning exactly half of every race entered. That is a remarkable ratio at any level, but the quality of the wins is what really stands out. Two of those victories came in Class 1 races — the very highest tier in British racing — and both came at Goodwood, one in June and one in August of 2025. Winning once at that level as a three-year-old is an achievement. Winning twice, at the same prestigious course, within two months, starts to tell you something about a horse with a genuine affinity for the place and the occasion.

The career started at Sandown Park in September 2024, and that first win was followed by a sequence that shows real consistency — a fourth, a fifth, then back-to-back wins at Goodwood. The most recent race, the August Class 1, ended in an eighth-place finish, though that came after the horse had already done its best work of the season. Waardah hasn't raced since then, a gap of around five months, so whoever watches this horse return will be seeing it fresh and rested after a break.

The trainer is Owen Burrows, whose yard in Lambourn has sent out 31 winners this season alone — a busy, well-functioning stable that clearly knows how to place a horse to its best advantage. The fact that Burrows has pointed Waardah at Class 1 races four times, and the horse has won two of them, suggests the team has a clear sense of what they have on their hands. At three years old, with half its races won and two of the sport's biggest stages already conquered, Waardah is exactly the kind of horse worth paying attention to when it comes back.