Blinky

Brittain's yard has been in decent form this season, sending out 23 winners, so Blinky is part of a working operation that knows how to get horses to the line ready to run. The horse's level is Class 4, one rung below the upper tiers, and it has been remarkably consistent there — winning 3 of its 15 races at that level, a 20% win rate, which works out to 1 in every 5 tries. That is genuinely solid for a horse competing regularly in that bracket.

The ground matters too. On normal conditions, Blinky goes up a gear — 2 wins from 10 races on standard ground, again that 1-in-5 ratio that suggests the horse finds its best when the track is neither too wet nor baked hard. Regular jockey Cam Hardie has been in the saddle for 9 of those 25 races together, producing 1 win between them, so the partnership has yet to really click consistently, though Hardie clearly remains the first-choice booking.

What gives the profile a slight shadow is the current run of form. Blinky has not won in its last 6 races, and the recent sequence — finishing 10th, 11th, 8th, 2nd, 5th, 2nd — shows a horse that keeps appearing near the places without finding the extra gear to win. The last victory came at Southwell in March 2025, now 14 months ago. Two second-place finishes in that recent stretch suggest it is not out of form entirely — it is still competing, still placing — but the winner's enclosure has felt a long way off lately.

Raced just one day ago, Blinky is clearly an active, busy sort. The first win came at Leicester in May 2024, and the career has ticked along since — not spectacular, but steady, honest, and still turning up. For a horse at this level, that counts for a good deal.