Burgundy Man

That said, something shifted at Perth on 21 October 2025, when he finally got his head in front for the first time in his career. A first career win at nine is a genuinely rare thing — most horses have either found a way to win long before that age or have drifted out of racing altogether. The fact that it came at Perth is worth noting. It's a tight, sharp track in Scotland that suits horses with a specific style, and Burgundy Man clearly found conditions to his liking that day.

He competes mainly at Class 5, which is the grassroots level of British racing — these are competitive fields, but not the glamour end of the sport. Even at that level, his record of 1 win from 12 races (8%, or roughly 1 in every 12) tells you he's a horse that makes races interesting without often winning them. His recent form of 3-3-1-5-6 — reading from that Perth win backwards — actually looks encouraging compared to his longer career arc. Two third-place finishes before the win, and he's been placed seven times in total, so he knows how to be competitive.

Regular jockey Nathan Moscrop has been aboard six times and is yet to ride him to a win, though that says as much about timing as talent — the win came with a different combination in the saddle. Burgundy Man is trained by R Mike Smith at Galston in East Ayrshire, a yard that has sent out 25 winners this season, which suggests a busy, functioning operation that clearly knows how to get a horse ready to perform.

He raced just yesterday, so he's firmly in the thick of his season. Whether that Perth win turns out to be a one-off career highlight or the start of a late-career purple patch, at nine years old and still running, Burgundy Man has earned a quiet kind of respect.