This season tells a slightly more complicated story. Twelve winners from 199 runners works out to around 1 in every 17 races — a 6% win rate that has dipped from 8% last year. That shift is worth noting. It is not a collapse, but it does suggest the yard is finding things a touch harder right now, whether that is the quality of horses available, the competition getting stiffer, or simply the natural fluctuation that every trainer experiences. Twelve winners from nearly 200 runners is a lot of effort for a relatively modest return, and it will be something Bin Harmash will want to reverse.
The most reliable weapon in the operation is jockey Connor Beasley, who has partnered the yard's horses to 7 wins from 121 rides together — again, roughly 1 in 17, matching the trainer's overall average almost exactly. That consistency suggests a genuine working relationship rather than a casual arrangement. When a jockey and trainer are on the same page, it usually shows up in moments that statistics don't fully capture: the right horse saved for the right race, the tactical call that pays off.
The one curiosity is the partnership with Flying Honours, a horse Bin Harmash has sent out six times without reward. Six races together and no wins is the kind of stat that makes you wonder what the plan is — whether this is a horse that keeps finding one too good, or one that simply needs everything to fall right and hasn't managed it yet. Either way, it remains unfinished business.
At four years in with 65 winners behind them, Bin Harmash is still very much a trainer building rather than one who has arrived. The slight dip this season is a bump in the road rather than a warning sign. The interesting question is what year five looks like.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| meydan | 119 | 7 | 5.9% |
| jebel_ali | 51 | 3 | 5.9% |
| abu_dhabi | 26 | 2 | 7.7% |
| sharjah | 3 | 0 | 0% |