Zous And Me

That first win came at Galway in September 2025, and the Galway track has a reputation for rewarding horses with a bit of guts and tactical intelligence. Winning there, even at this early stage, tells you something. The fact that Zous And Me's recent form reads 1-7-11 going backwards — meaning the win came most recently — suggests the horse is improving and heading in the right direction, rather than coasting on an early flash of form.

Behind the scenes, the person setting this horse up for success is Joseph Patrick O'Brien, training out of Owning Hill in County Kilkenny. O'Brien is one of the sharpest young trainers in the game, and the numbers back that up — 154 winners already sent out this season from his yard. That is not a fluke; that is a training operation running at a very high level, and having a freshly active, improving three-year-old in that environment is exactly the kind of situation that tends to produce more good days ahead.