Cinque Verde

The numbers tell a confident story. Nine wins from 38 races is a 24% win rate — that means roughly one win every four races, which for a horse competing consistently at Class 5 level is genuinely solid. On fast, dry ground, it goes up a gear: 3 wins from just 8 races on those conditions, a 38% win rate that suggests this is a horse that really comes alive when the sun has been out. That is not a coincidence worth ignoring.

What stands out most, though, is Newmarket. Two wins from just 3 races at one of the most famous tracks in the world is the kind of record that makes people pay attention. Newmarket is not a track that flatters every horse — it is long, exposed, and unforgiving — so dominating it to that degree means something. Cinque Verde won there as recently as 1 May 2026, which was this week, which tells you everything about where this horse currently is: at the top of its form.

Recent form backs that up. Of the last 6 races, there are 2 wins — the most recent result being a victory, the one before that a win as well if you look back through the sequence. Jack Doughty, who rides it most often, has won 4 of their 13 races together, a win rate of 31%, which is markedly better than the horse's overall average. That partnership clearly works.

Tony Carroll trains Cinque Verde from his yard in Cropthorne, Worcestershire, and this has been a remarkable season for the stable — 136 winners sent out already. Earlier in the year, Carroll noted that the horse had been in brilliant form on the all-weather surface, winning five times between February and May. That kind of purple patch, followed by a course win at Newmarket this week, suggests Cinque Verde is one of the most consistent and interesting horses currently running at this level in Britain.