Kayley Woollacott

The numbers for this season tell a tidy story on their own: 16 winners from 86 runners. But the last two weeks have been something else entirely. Three winners from just 7 runners — a win rate of 43% — suggests the yard is in the kind of form where it pays to watch whatever she sends out next. Trainers often talk about horses "coming right" at a certain point in the season; Woollacott's string looks very much like it has done exactly that.

If you want to pick one place where her horses seem to genuinely thrive, it is Wincanton, the compact right-handed track tucked into the Somerset countryside. Four winners from 8 runners there is a remarkable return — half of everything she runs at that track wins. For context, even elite trainers rarely convert at that rate at a single track over a sustained period. Whether it is the track's shape, the ground it tends to produce, or simply familiarity with a local venue, Wincanton looks like somewhere to follow her runners closely.

One relationship worth watching with curiosity rather than confidence is her partnership with jockey Ben Godfrey. Nineteen rides together and not a single winner between them — that is a strange blank on an otherwise improving record, and it stands out precisely because everything else in her season points in the opposite direction. Racing partnerships can take time to click, or sometimes they simply never do. Either way, it is the one puzzle in a profile that is otherwise looking more and more like that of a trainer on the rise.