Arctic Flame

That one career win came at Down Royal on 29 August 2025, and it remains the defining moment of the record so far. Down Royal is a sharp, right-handed track in County Down, and getting it right there suggests Arctic Flame handles a specific type of challenge well. The win came nine months ago now, but this is a horse that raced just one day ago, so the flame — if you'll forgive it — is still very much burning.

Patrick T Foley trains the horse from his yard in Bagenalstown, County Carlow, and it's a stable in decent nick right now — 12 winners sent out already this season, which speaks to a yard that knows how to get horses ready. Simon Torrens has been the regular partner, riding in 6 of the 11 races and winning 1 of them — roughly 1 in every 6 rides together. That's a 17% win rate from their partnership, which is actually a respectable return when you consider how competitive Irish racing is at this level.

The honest read on Arctic Flame is that this is a horse still searching for its best. A win rate of roughly 1 in every 11 races (9%) is modest, but the cluster of placed efforts tells you the ability is there. The question now is whether Foley and Torrens can find the right conditions to coax a second win out of a horse that clearly knows how to race — and clearly hasn't run out of ambition.