Court Of Stars

Look at the last six runs and you see a horse that has been quietly improving. After an unplaced effort and a blank before that, Court of Stars has rattled off a sequence of 11th, 4th, 1st, 2nd, 2nd — read in reverse order, that's a horse finding its stride, reaching the top of the podium, and then staying right in contention on the two runs since. That kind of upward curve is exactly what you want to see from a young horse still learning its trade, and the fact that it raced just yesterday tells you the team at Marlborough have confidence in its current form.

The breakthrough win came at Kempton Park on the 4th of May 2026, and that result matters beyond just getting off the mark. Kempton is a sharp, turning track that rewards a particular style of racing, and winning there can be a useful indicator of where a horse's strengths lie. The team behind Court of Stars is trained by Ollie Sangster, who is clearly operating in fine fettle this season — 42 winners sent out already puts the yard firmly in the kind of form where they tend to know when a horse is ready to run well.

The one gentle caveat is that Court of Stars has yet to win at Class 5 level, which is the grade it typically competes at — zero wins from four attempts there. The Kempton win came elsewhere on the card. That's not a red flag so much as something to keep an eye on. A horse running this well, trained by a yard firing on all cylinders, and still improving at three years old is the kind of profile that tends to get more interesting, not less, as the season goes on.