Blue Moon Boy

His first win came at Galway in August 2025, and he followed it up with another at Killarney in October. That looked like a horse hitting his stride — two wins in a couple of months suggested he had figured something out. But since that Killarney success, seven months ago now, he has gone six races without troubling the winner's enclosure, and the recent form figures of 2-14-7-9-8-9 tell a story of a horse who briefly flattered to deceive. Second place is in there, which shows the ability is not entirely gone, but the string of single-digit finishes that follow suggest he has been struggling to land a blow. He raced just yesterday, so he is firmly in the thick of a season that has not been kind to him.

He is trained by Andrew Kinirons, who operates out of Newbridge in Co Kildare. The yard has sent out five winners this season, so it is not as though things have gone quiet — Kinirons is finding winners with other horses. The question is whether Blue Moon Boy can rediscover whatever it was that made Killarney click back in the autumn. At four years old he is still young enough to improve, but the clock is ticking on a run that, by any honest assessment, has gone stale.