Alice's Influence

That turnaround came to a head at Wetherby on 26 April 2026, where she broke her duck for the first time. Winning your first race is always a milestone, but doing it at Wetherby — a track that suits horses who can travel well and handle a stiff finish — makes it a meaningful one. She raced just yesterday, so she is clearly being kept busy while she is in form, which suggests her trainer likes what he is seeing at home.

That trainer is David Evans, operating out of his yard in Pandy, Monmouthshire. Evans has sent out 37 winners already this season, which is a healthy tally and marks him out as someone who knows how to get horses ready to win. When a yard is in that kind of form, it matters — horses from confident, busy stables tend to arrive at the track in better shape.

The one clear pattern in Alice's Influence's record is that she does her best work over a mile and one or two furlongs. At that trip she has won 1 from 4 races — 25%, or one in every four — which is a solid conversion rate for a young horse still learning the game. The slight puzzle is that she has yet to win at Class 5, the level she most often competes at, going 0 from 3 at that grade. Her win at Wetherby will likely have come at a similar level, so that anomaly may already be resolving itself. Either way, she is a horse whose form is trending upward at exactly the right moment.