Weekend Roar
Weekend Roar is a two-year-old that showed real promise early in its career with a debut win at Newmarket back in June, but has found the step up in competition much tougher since then. The horse has run five times overall and won just once — that single victory came on its second outing, suggesting it hit the ground running before the field began to figure it out. Since that win at Newmarket three months ago, Weekend Roar has raced four more times with mixed results: an eighth-place finish, a fourth, a third, and most recently a fifteenth just over a day ago. That last run looks particularly disappointing after what appeared to be a small recovery with the third-place effort before it.Based on TrackLab's analysis
Owner
Middleham Park Racing CXIV
📊 Key numbers
Career totals for this horse
🔍 Full analysis
Our model's view, based on this horse's career and recent runs
Trainer H Palmer, based at Malpas in Cheshire, runs a prolific yard that has sent out 67 winners this season, so there is clearly experience and quality in the stable. The question now for Palmer and the team is whether Weekend Roar can rediscover the form that earned that debut victory or whether the horse has plateaued at this level. With just one win from five races, the horse is winning roughly one in every five races it enters — a rate that suggests it is competing against better opposition than it can consistently handle. At two years old, there is time for improvement and for the horse to find its right level, but the recent form tells the story of a young horse struggling to maintain its early promise.
🎯 Where this horse runs best
Results split by ground, distance, race level and track shape
🌧 Ground
Good to soft (some give)
Unknown
Good (a little give)
Unknown
Good to firm (fairly firm)
Unknown
🏟 Track shape
Right-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, hilly
Unknown
Left-handed, long straights
Avoids
📅 Recent runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
10 Sep
8th
Doncaster
7f – 1m · Good_To_Soft · 9 runners
20 Aug
15th
York
5f – 6½f · Good_To_Soft · 22 runners
3 Aug
4th
Naas
5f – 6½f · Good · 12 runners
25 Jun
🏆 Won
Newmarket
5f – 6½f · Good_To_Firm · 6 runners
14 Jun
3rd
Salisbury
5f – 6½f · Good · 12 runners
🏟 Course record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last run | Win rate |
|---|
| Newmarket Galloping |
1 |
1 win |
25 Jun |
100% |
| York Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
20 Aug |
0% |
| Doncaster Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
10 Sep |
0% |
| Naas Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
3 Aug |
0% |
| Salisbury Undulating |
1 |
1 third |
14 Jun |
0% |