Alex The Great

All three wins have come at Class 6 level, the entry-level tier of British racing, and that is where Alex The Great has done its best work. In 22 races at that level, the horse has won 3 of them — a 14% win rate, which means winning roughly 1 in every 7 attempts at the right grade. That is a meaningfully better record than the overall career numbers suggest, and it points to a horse that knows its level and performs when placed correctly. The most recent win came at Newcastle on 7 March 2025, which is now 15 months ago, and the six races since then have returned a string of mid-pack finishes — seventh, eighth, eighth, tenth, fifth, seventh — with nothing threatening a return to the winner's enclosure.

The partnership with jockey Jack Doughty is one of the more striking details in this horse's file. In 11 races together, Doughty has ridden Alex The Great to all 3 of its career wins — a 27% win rate, or 3 wins from every 11 rides together. That is a remarkable return by any measure. For context, most jockey-horse combinations at this level win far less often than that. It suggests something genuine clicks between horse and rider, and any time that partnership is reunited, it is worth paying attention.

Behind the horse is Tony Carroll, a trainer based in Cropthorne, Worcestershire, whose yard has been in excellent form — 136 winners sent out this season alone. That is a high-volume, high-functioning operation, which means Alex The Great is in competent hands even if recent results have been quiet. The first win of the career came as recently as November 2024 at Southwell, so this is not a horse with a long history of success to look back on — it is still a relatively new winner, figuring things out. Raced just yesterday, Alex The Great is very much active and in training, waiting for the right conditions to remind everyone what it can do when things fall right.