Wemightakedlongway

The partnership with jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle is worth paying attention to. In eight races together, they've won twice — a rate of 25%, or 1 in every 4. That's meaningfully better than the horse's overall record, which suggests McMonagle has developed a real understanding of how this horse runs. When a jockey wins a quarter of their rides on a particular horse, that's not luck — that's a working relationship.

The trainer, Joseph Patrick O'Brien, operates out of Owning Hill in County Kilkenny, and is having a productive season by any measure — 153 winners so far this campaign. That's the kind of output that puts a yard firmly among the leading operations in Irish racing. Horses trained there tend to be placed with care and raced at the right moments, which makes Wemightakedlongway's record feel considered rather than accidental.

The horse's best performances have come at a distance of around a mile and one or two furlongs — winning 1 of 3 races at that trip, a rate of 33%. In racing terms, finding a distance that suits can unlock a horse, and that one-in-three return suggests this is where the horse is most comfortable and competitive.

The most recent win came at Navan on 26 April 2025, and the horse raced just yesterday, so it is very much in active campaigning mode. The first win arrived at Cork in October 2024, meaning this is a horse that has progressed through its four-year-old season picking up form along the way. It won't be troubling the very top races, but in its own patch of the sport, Wemightakedlongway is a horse that keeps showing up — and occasionally, right on cue, it delivers.