Chilli Queen

That first win came at Wolverhampton in May 2025, and from there Chilli Queen has barely looked back. Her recent sequence of finishes — second, second, first, first, first, second — reads like a horse that has worked out exactly what racing is about. Three wins and seven placed efforts from ten races in total gives her a 30% win rate, meaning she wins roughly 3 in every 10 races she enters. For context, most racehorses win far less often than that over a career of this length.

The highlight on her record is a win at Ascot in July 2025. Ascot is one of British racing's most famous venues — the home of Royal Ascot, the showpiece week watched by millions — and any winner there carries a certain prestige. It suggests Chilli Queen is more than just a horse who picks up races in modest company.

She is trained by Emma Lavelle, based at Ogbourne Maizey in Wiltshire. Lavelle's yard has sent out 47 winners already this season, which marks it out as a yard in fine form — not a one-horse operation riding its luck, but a genuine training operation firing on all cylinders. When a horse comes from a yard like that in the kind of form Chilli Queen is showing, you pay attention.

She has raced just one day ago, so she is as current as it gets. Most of her racing has come at Class 5 level — the bread-and-butter end of the sport — where she has won 1 from 6, or roughly 1 in every 6 attempts at that grade. That 17% win rate at her most common level is decent without being spectacular, which makes her performances in better company all the more intriguing. At 4 years old and with momentum firmly behind her, there is every reason to think the best of Chilli Queen may still be ahead.