Antrim

The numbers that really stand out are the ones tied to Newcastle. Antrim has won 2 of its 3 races there, which is the kind of record that makes you sit up. Winning two-thirds of your races at any track is remarkable — it suggests something about the layout, the surface, or simply the atmosphere that genuinely suits this horse. Add to that a record of 2 wins from just 3 races on normal ground conditions, and a pattern starts to emerge: when the circumstances are right, Antrim delivers.

Recent form backs that up. Looking at the last six races — reading oldest to newest, that's a win, fourth, win, fourth, ninth, third — Antrim has won 2 of those 6, and the most recent result of third place suggests it is still very much in the mix. The last win came at Meydan in January 2026, which tells you this is a horse that has been asked to travel and compete away from home, not just kept comfortable on familiar turf.

Behind all of this is K R Burke's yard in Coverham, North Yorkshire — a training operation that has sent out 140 winners this season alone. That is a serious number. For context, most trainers are delighted with 20 or 30 winners in a year; 140 means Burke's team is producing winners almost every other day. Antrim is one piece of a very well-oiled machine, and being trained in a yard that busy and that successful is no small advantage.

Antrim raced just one day ago, which means this is a horse in active campaign right now. With a course record at Newcastle that most horses would envy, normal ground conditions that seem to bring out the best in it, and a training yard firing on all cylinders, Antrim is exactly the kind of horse that rewards paying attention to — particularly if it heads back to Newcastle on a dry day.