Wheels Of Fire

What makes this one interesting right now is the recent activity. Wheels Of Fire won at Musselburgh just this week — April 4th, 2026 — and that's the second win from its last six races. For a horse that had been drifting through a run of midfield finishes (seventh, seventh, sixth, tenth in a row at one point), that's a meaningful upturn. Form like that tells you the horse found its feet again at the right moment, not that it was quietly grinding through a rough patch.

The career started promisingly enough at Lingfield Park in August 2024, and the horse has spent most of its time competing at Class 4 level — solid, competitive racing without quite reaching the top tier. At that level, it has won just 1 from 10, which is 10%, or roughly 1 in every 10 attempts at that grade. That's a modest return, and it suggests Wheels Of Fire has often found the Class 4 field tough to crack — making the recent win all the more satisfying.

Sean Levey has been the jockey of choice for much of the career, riding in 7 of those 18 races together, with 1 win between them. The horse is trained by Richard Hannon, one of the most productive yards in Britain — 109 winners already this season, which is the kind of output that only comes from a well-oiled operation in Herridge, Wiltshire. When a stable that busy bothers to keep running a horse, you can take it as a quiet vote of confidence.

Wheels Of Fire isn't a superstar, but it's a horse in form, trained by a yard firing on all cylinders, and it raced just yesterday. There are worse things to be.