Cisco Disco

The overall career numbers — 5 wins and 10 places from 33 races, a win rate of roughly 1 in every 6 or 7 outings — would look unspectacular on paper, but the recent form tears that narrative apart. Cisco Disco has won 4 of its last 6 races, a run of form that would turn heads in any yard. The sequence reads 1-1-5-1-1-8 going back from last weekend, and that single blip of a fifth place and an eighth are easy to forgive given everything either side of them. Whatever clicked in the second half of 2025 has clearly stuck.

One thing that genuinely helps this horse is wet or muddy ground. In those conditions, Cisco Disco has won 2 of just 4 races — that's a 50% win rate, which is extraordinary at any level. For context, elite racehorses winning at that clip in any condition is considered exceptional. Add in the fact that the horse appears to hit its stride over a mile and three or four furlongs — winning 3 of 9 races at that trip, or 1 in every 3 — and you have a horse with clear, defined preferences that a shrewd trainer can exploit.

R Mike Smith's yard has sent out 25 winners already this season, so this is not a small operation finding occasional luck. The most regular partner in the saddle has been Oisin Orr, though their combined record of 1 win from 7 rides together suggests the partnership is still finding its best. Cisco Disco raced just yesterday and remains firmly active, so the next outing — ideally back at Ayr, ideally on a wet day — is worth watching.