Conquer The Breeze

Trained by Adam Nicol out of Seahouses in Northumberland — so Hexham is practically the local track — Conquer The Breeze has had a strong recent run of form. Two wins from the last 6 races is a sharp upturn for a horse whose overall career record is 3 wins and 10 places from 22 outings, and the most recent of those wins came just this week at Hexham on 19 May 2026. The horse is very much in the middle of a good patch right now. Nicol's yard has sent out 26 winners this season, so this is a team that knows what it is doing and has been in good shape all year.

The conditions matter too. On slightly soft ground — where the turf has a bit of give underfoot — Conquer The Breeze has won 2 from 7 races, a win rate of 29%. That is more than double its overall rate, and it fits the profile of a horse that likes to get into the ground rather than scorch across a fast, dry surface. Combine that with its preferred trip of between a mile and six furlongs and two miles — three wins from 9 races at those distances, or 1 in 3 — and you start to understand when and where to look for this horse at its best.

Most of those races have come at Class 5 level, the bread-and-butter end of the racing calendar, and Charlie Price is the jockey most associated with the partnership, though their record of 1 win from 8 rides together is modest. The horse does its best work when the stars align: Hexham, a bit of cut in the ground, the right distance. Get all three, and Conquer The Breeze is genuinely hard to dismiss.