Ballyglass Beauty

The last victory came at Listowel in September 2023, which is now 32 months ago and counting. Since then, six races without a win, including a seventh and an eighth in the most recent outings. That's not a horse in crisis, but it does suggest Ballyglass Beauty is finding winners harder to come by as the years add up. At 10, there's no great mystery to that — it simply becomes tougher to find the right race at the right moment.

What is genuinely encouraging is the record on normal ground: 2 wins from 10 races on standard conditions, which works out at 20%, or roughly 1 in every 5. That's a dramatically better return than the overall figures suggest, meaning when the ground is right, Ballyglass Beauty is a very different proposition. Trainer Cian Collins, based in Navan, Co Meath, knows this horse well enough to have sent it out just yesterday — the yard has been in fine form this season with 20 winners, so Collins is clearly placing horses where they can compete.

Adam Ellis has been the regular jockey, riding together 9 times with 1 win between them — about 1 in every 9 rides. It's a partnership that has been around long enough to understand each other, even if the results haven't always followed. The first career win came at Kilbeggan back in September 2022, and there have been two more since, with Listowel the most recent. Three wins spread across 37 races at a horse's level is modest, but it also means Ballyglass Beauty has been competitive enough to keep getting entries — and was on a racecourse as recently as yesterday. At 10, still running and still placing, that's a career of genuine durability.