Crowsatedappletart

The Wexford obsession is the headline, but the full picture is nearly as good. Crowsatedappletart won for the first time at Limerick back in March 2023, and has been knocking on doors ever since. Recent form reads 1-6-7-1-2-5 across the last six races, meaning two wins in that spell, which is a productive run for a horse at this level. Crucially, the most recent of those wins came at Wexford just this week, confirming this is a horse in good health and good heart right now. With only one day since its last race, it is about as current as a profile can get.

Ground matters too. On slightly soft ground — just a touch of moisture in the surface — Crowsatedappletart wins 2 from 7, or just under 1 in 3. That is a meaningful uptick from its overall record and worth remembering when the weather turns. It is the kind of detail that separates a casual punt from an informed one.

In the saddle, Darragh O'Keeffe has partnered the horse 16 times and ridden it to 2 of its 8 career wins — winning around 1 in every 8 rides together, which is a workmanlike partnership rather than a magical one. The operation behind the horse is Michael Winters, training out of Kanturk in County Cork, a yard that has already sent out 6 winners this season. That is a team in decent form, and a trainer who clearly knows how to place a horse to its best advantage — three wins from four at a single track does not happen by accident.

At nine years old, Crowsatedappletart is no youngster, but there is no sign of the wheels coming off. If it turns up at Wexford again, you have been warned.