Cozone

The most interesting detail is the timing of that latest win. Cozone won at Downpatrick just two weeks ago, on 29 March 2026, and raced again yesterday. At nine, many horses are winding down, but Cozone is very much in the thick of it. That Downpatrick win comes after a run of results that looked bleak — a 14th, a 9th, an 11th — so to bounce back with a victory is no small thing. It suggests the horse still has good days in it, and that the team around Cozone knows exactly when to aim for them.

That team is Matthew J Smith's yard in Kilmessan, County Meath, which has sent out 8 winners already this season — a yard clearly in decent form. The most important figure in Cozone's story, though, is jockey James Smith, who has been on board for 16 of the 48 career races and ridden 3 of the 4 wins. That works out to roughly 1 win in every 5 races they have run together — a win rate of 19%, which is notably higher than Cozone's overall career average. When those two team up, something tends to happen. The partnership clearly suits the horse, and it is the kind of stat that a regular follower of Cozone would have quietly filed away long ago.

The career started at Dundalk in November 2022, and Cozone has been plugging away ever since — never the most prolific winner, but durable, consistent, and apparently not done yet. For a nine-year-old still racing, still winning, and still active as of yesterday, that counts for a great deal.