Dancingwithmyself

The five-year-old has built a tidy career record of 5 wins and 9 places from 19 races — that works out at winning roughly 1 in every 4, or 26% overall. But averages can be misleading, and with this horse they absolutely are. The real story is Chelmsford, where it has won 2 of just 3 races. That is the kind of ratio that makes trainers sit up and take notice. When a horse wins two thirds of its races at one venue, you do not need to be a racing expert to understand that there is something about that track — the shape of it, the surface, the way it flows — that suits this particular animal down to the ground.

Michael Bell trains Dancingwithmyself out of Newmarket in Suffolk, one of British racing's great headquarters, and his yard has been in fine form this season with 47 winners sent out already. The horse tends to race at Class 5 level, which is the entry point of the sport, and at that level it is frankly formidable — winning 3 of 6 races, a 50% win rate. On normal ground conditions it has also won 2 from 4, again at 50%, and its best distance is around a mile and a furlong to a mile and two furlongs, where it has won 2 of 4. Every number points in the same direction: this is a horse that, when conditions suit, is very hard to beat.

Its recent form reads 4-2-3-1-4-8, which tells a useful story — there is a win in there, a second place, a third, but also some races where it simply has not shown up. That inconsistency is common at this level. What matters is that it won at Goodwood in September 2025 and raced just yesterday, meaning it is fit, active, and still competing. If Chelmsford comes up on the card and the ground is riding normally, Dancingwithmyself is exactly the kind of horse a knowledgeable friend would quietly mention before you looked at anything else.