Butch Cassidy

Start with the ground. When the rain comes down and the track gets wet and heavy, Butch Cassidy becomes a different animal. On soft or muddy ground, he has won 2 of his 4 races — that's a 50% win rate, meaning he wins every other time conditions go his way. For context, most racehorses win far less than 1 in 5. Finding a horse that essentially flips a coin in its favour when it rains is genuinely rare, and it gives anyone watching him a built-in edge: check the weather forecast first.

His career began to take shape at Ballinrobe in April 2024, and he added his most recent win just this week at Killarney on 9th May 2026 — making him as live and relevant as it gets. Recent form reads 1-–-5-3-4-3, meaning he won last time out, had one run where he didn't finish, and otherwise has been knocking around the top handful consistently. He's not a horse that blows hot and cold — he turns up, competes, and when everything clicks, he wins.

Behind him is one of the most respected training yards in Irish racing. Henry De Bromhead operates out of Knockeen in Co Waterford, and this season the yard has sent out 107 winners — a number that reflects not just quality but sheer consistency of operation. When a horse comes out of a yard producing at that level, it isn't an accident. Most often in the saddle is Darragh O'Keeffe, who has ridden him in 5 of his 9 races and won 1 of them together — roughly 1 in 5 when they're paired up, which sits comfortably in line with what you'd hope for from a solid jockey-horse partnership.

Butch Cassidy isn't chasing down the biggest prizes in the sport, but he's a horse that knows what he's doing, has a clear preference for wet ground, and just won this week. Sometimes that's exactly enough.