P Twomey

The numbers this season tell a story of a yard moving through the gears. Last year, Twomey was winning around 1 in every 5 races — a perfectly respectable rate. This season that has jumped to 42 winners from 152 runners, roughly 1 in every 4. That improvement from 22% to 28% might sound like a small shift, but across a full season it represents a significant step up, the kind of progression that suggests the operation is growing into itself and finding a higher gear rather than simply getting lucky.

Cork is where Twomey's horses seem particularly at home. Twelve winners from 28 runners at the track is the sort of record that makes you sit up — that is nearly 1 in every 2 runners converted into a winner, which borders on extraordinary. When a trainer consistently beats those odds at a specific venue, it usually means they understand the track, time their horses right, and turn up knowing they have a genuine chance.

The partnership with jockey W J Lee is the engine room of the operation. Across 102 rides together they have won 31 races — again, almost exactly 1 in 3 — which points to a combination that has genuine trust and timing between them. Ride well together long enough and those numbers stop being a coincidence. Then there is King Cuan, the standout individual partnership: 4 wins from 11 races together, a horse and trainer who clearly bring out the best in each other.

Four years in, four top-level wins, a win rate climbing steeply upward — Twomey is building something worth watching.