Wipeawayyourtears

That one win came at Fairyhouse on 12 June 2026, and it remains the defining moment of the career so far. Fairyhouse is a well-regarded track in Ireland, and getting off the mark there is no small thing. What makes it more interesting is the recent form: looking at the last six races in reverse order, the sequence reads 9-1-3-2-6-10. Strip that back and you see a horse that won, then placed twice in its very next outings — a run of form that suggests the Fairyhouse victory was not a fluke but a breakthrough. The two finishes on either side of that purple patch, a sixth and a tenth, simply show that a young horse's form can be streaky. That is normal at this stage.

Trained by Michael Butler, Wipeawayyourtears is part of a small operation that has sent out one winner so far this season. It raced just one day ago, which means it is firmly in the middle of an active campaign right now. With the Fairyhouse win only five weeks in the past and two places since, this is a horse whose the yard will be quietly confident they have something to work with — a young horse that has tasted winning and shown it can back it up. The next few months will tell us whether this is the beginning of something or a moment that proves hard to repeat.