Bite That

Those two wins are separated by nearly three years, which is what makes the most recent one worth lingering on. Bite That won at Wexford on St Patrick's Day 2025 — a date that tends to stick in the memory — and that result now sits 14 months in the past. Since then, across its last six races, the best it has managed is a fourth and a fifth, with a ninth thrown in and three runs where it failed to finish in the frame at all. The form line reads 9–-–-12-5-4, going most recent first, and it is not one that screams a winner on the horizon.

The horse races out of Patrick J Flynn's yard in Carrick-on-Suir, County Waterford, and Flynn has had a productive season with ten winners sent out. Most often in the saddle is G B Noonan, who has partnered Bite That nine times and come away with one win — which is actually a slightly better hit rate than the horse's overall record, winning 1 in every 9 together compared to 1 in every 20 across its full career.

At ten years old and with form this lean, Bite That is not a horse you back expecting fireworks. But it raced just yesterday, which means someone still thinks there is a performance in there worth waiting for. In racing, that kind of persistence from a small yard counts for something. The first win came at Tramore back in August 2022, the second arrived on a national holiday two and a half years later — if there is a third, the timing will probably be just as unexpected.