Caballo De Mar

The five-year-old has built a career record of 6 wins and 12 places from 18 races — a win rate of 33%, or roughly 1 in every 3 races. That is a seriously impressive return, especially when you consider that those wins include two Class 2 victories, which means this horse has been beating good horses, not just filling its boots against weak fields. The most recent of those came at Haydock Park in May 2025, a track with a strong reputation, and the one before that at Southwell in April. Two top-level wins in the space of a month is the form of a horse right at the peak of its powers.

At distances over two miles, Caballo De Mar has won 2 of its 3 races — a 67% win rate that suggests the longer the race, the more dangerous it becomes. Staying power is a specific gift, and this horse clearly has it. On normal ground it has won 3 from 5 races in one set of conditions and 2 from 4 in another, reinforcing the point: give it decent underfoot conditions and it will be competitive almost every time.

Jockey Callum Shepherd partners this horse more than anyone, and together they have won 5 of their 12 races — 42%, or nearly 1 in every 2 times they team up. That is a partnership that clearly works. Behind them is trainer George Scott, whose Newmarket yard has already sent out 51 winners this season — a yard in serious form. With recent form reading 2-8-2-1-2-1, there was a blip in the middle, but the horse has come back to winning ways with authority. Whatever the eighth-place finish was about, it looks like a temporary glitch in an otherwise consistent career. Raced just yesterday and still active, Caballo De Mar is very much a horse in the middle of its story, not the end of it.