Amen Kate

She is a 6-year-old trained by Thomas Cooper out of Tralee in County Kerry, a yard that has sent out 8 winners already this season and clearly knows how to get horses ready to run. Amen Kate broke her duck at Listowel in September 2024 — a track in her home county, which feels fitting — and then added another win at Thurles in December 2025, a track further afield that showed she is not just a horse who needs familiar surroundings to perform. That Thurles win, though now four months ago, was the most recent time she visited the winner's enclosure.

Her recent form reads as a little patchy on the surface — two wins tucked in among some quieter runs — but the 2 wins from her last 6 races actually represent her best spell of form. For a horse who is currently active and racing right now, that momentum matters. The question her trainer will be weighing is whether the four months since Thurles have refreshed her or left her slightly cold, and whether the right race comes along soon enough to find out.

What makes Amen Kate worth watching is less any single spectacular performance and more the sheer consistency of a horse that keeps showing up and competing. She is not a headline act, but she is the kind of horse a knowledgeable racing fan quietly keeps an eye on — reliable, proven across more than one track, and still very much in the game at six years old.