Champagne Chic

What makes Champagne Chic particularly curious is where she wins. Her most recent victory came on 14 February 2026 at Haydock Park in a Class 2 race — one of the better races in Britain. She has run in Class 4 races four times and has not won any of them, which sounds like a contradiction until you realise what it actually means: she tends to rise to the level of the competition rather than bully weaker fields. Some horses are paddling pool bullies; this one seems to prefer the deep end.

Lorcan Williams has been her regular partner, riding her in 8 of her 10 races and winning 2 of them — that is 1 in every 4 races together, a solid partnership built on familiarity. Her recent form reads 2 wins from her last 6 races, with a second place in there too, so she arrives at her next race in genuinely good shape. She first got off the mark at Wincanton back in January 2025, but the Haydock win in February 2026 was the performance that really defines her — a step up in class, and she delivered.

She raced just yesterday, so the yard will be managing her carefully, but the trajectory here is one worth watching. A horse who wins roughly 1 in every 3 races overall, who earns her best results when the stakes are highest, and who is trained by a yard clearly in form — that combination does not come along every week.