Zarinca

That win came just this week at Southwell on 25 April 2026, so she heads into whatever comes next on the back of fresh momentum. Southwell is a unique track — an all-weather, fibresand surface that can be an acquired taste for horses, and winning there shows she handles it well.

She is trained by Edward Bethell at Middleham in North Yorkshire, one of racing's great training villages, tucked into the Yorkshire Dales and home to some of the sharpest yards in the country. Bethell's operation has been in excellent form, sending out 59 winners this season alone — that kind of output signals a yard firing on all cylinders, and Zarinca appears to be one of the horses benefiting from that momentum. With three races under her belt and a win already on the board, she is still very much at the beginning of her story.