Edward Cawley

And quiet is the word for this season. Just 1 winner from 64 runners means Cawley is winning roughly 1 in every 64 races at the moment, a 2% win rate that represents a real dip from last year's 5%. To put that in perspective: last season, he was finding the winner around 1 in every 20 times. That kind of drop isn't unusual in training — horses have bad patches, luck runs thin, and small yards can feel the cold more sharply than bigger operations — but it is the story of Cawley's current season in a single number.

One area that does stand out is wet or muddy ground, where Cawley's horses have won 1 from 11 races this season, a 9% win rate. That's meaningfully better than his overall numbers, suggesting the yard has horses that genuinely handle soft conditions rather than just tolerating them. It's a small but useful edge, the kind of thing worth knowing.

His most regular jockey this season has been E Walsh, who has ridden 15 times for the yard without a winner — 0 from 15 is a tough run for any partnership, though in a season where the whole yard has managed just 1 winner from 64 runners, it's hard to lay that at any one rider's door. Similarly, the yard's most notable horse, He's Home Again, has raced 15 times with Cawley without winning together. Fifteen races is a long time to be searching for a breakthrough, but it also speaks to a trainer willing to keep faith with a horse and keep trying.

At four years in, Cawley is still a relatively young trainer building his operation. The 22 career winners show genuine ability to prepare horses to win races. Whether this season is a temporary dip or something that requires a rethink, the next few months will tell a lot about which direction this yard is heading.