Cloudy Wednesday

Competing mostly at Class 5 level — the bread-and-butter tier of British racing, where solid, consistent horses make their living — Cloudy Wednesday has found the winner's enclosure 5 times from 31 races at that grade, winning about 1 in every 6. That's a fair record at a competitive level, and it suggests a horse that belongs in the races it's put into rather than one that's being carried along by the current.

The partnership with jockey Lewis Stones is the most compelling thread in this horse's story. In 26 races together, they've won 5 times — a win rate of around 19%, or roughly 1 in every 5 rides. That's notably better than Cloudy Wednesday's overall career average of 14%, and it's the kind of number that suggests Stones genuinely gets the best out of this horse. When you see his name in the saddle, it matters.

Trained by Caroline Fryer out of Wymondham in Norfolk, Cloudy Wednesday opened its career account at Fakenham — the tight, quirky little track in the same county — back in February 2023. The most recent win came at Market Rasen in June 2025, and with a run just yesterday, this is a horse that is very much still in active service.

Recent form reads 2-3-blank-3-blank-1, which is actually encouraging. Two non-completions aside, every time Cloudy Wednesday has finished a race lately, it has placed. That consistency at the age of 10 is something worth noticing — plenty of horses at this stage of their careers are running out of momentum, but this one is still placing regularly and only recently won. For a yard that has sent out just 2 winners so far this season, Cloudy Wednesday is clearly carrying a meaningful share of the load.