Black Star Boy

The recent form figure of 6-1-8-1-6 tells an interesting story. Read right to left — that's how the races run chronologically — and you can see a horse that finished sixth, then won, then finished eighth, then won again, then finished sixth most recently. The two defeats sandwiching that middle victory, and the sixth place just one day ago, suggest Black Star Boy isn't a machine that wins every time it runs. But when it finds its rhythm, it delivers. The wins at Newbury in September 2025 and Sandown Park in April 2026 came at two of Britain's most respected tracks, which tells you this isn't a horse picking up easy races in quiet corners of the calendar.

Behind the horse is Ed Walker's yard at Upper Lambourn, one of racing's great training villages tucked into the Berkshire Downs. Walker's team has sent out 80 winners this season alone — that's a yard firing on all cylinders, and horses in form operations like this tend to benefit from confidence and momentum right through the whole string. Black Star Boy is clearly one of their live ammunition pieces heading into the summer.

Having raced just yesterday, it'll be interesting to see how the team manages the workload. A horse that has already won twice before its third birthday, at quality tracks, with an elite trainer behind it, has every reason to keep climbing. The story is young, but the early chapters are very promising.