Deluded

The one victory arrived at Wolverhampton on 20 September 2025, and it has proven to be the defining moment of the career so far. Wolverhampton is an all-weather, floodlit track with a distinctive oval shape that suits certain horses down to the ground — and Deluded clearly took to it. That win came over a distance between seven furlongs and a mile, the range where this horse has produced its best work, winning 1 from 4 races at those trips, or roughly one in every four attempts. That might not sound spectacular, but for a young horse still finding its feet, it shows a clear preference worth noting.

The recent form makes for interesting reading. Reading the last six results from most recent to oldest — 3, 2, 9, 1, 12, 2 — you can see a horse that is largely consistent but with the odd blip. The ninth-place finish and the twelfth stand out as the exceptions rather than the rule, and on either side of them the horse has been placing or winning. That kind of pattern, where the bad days are genuinely unusual, tends to point to a horse with a real baseline of ability.

Charlie Fellowes trains out of Newmarket, one of the sport's great headquarters, and his yard has sent out 20 winners already this season — a strong return that suggests a well-run operation in good form. Having a trainer clicking at that kind of rate is exactly the kind of environment a developing three-year-old needs. Deluded raced just one day ago, so the team are clearly keeping this horse busy, which often signals confidence that there is more to come.

Win rate sits at roughly 1 in every 6 races across the career as a whole, but zoom into the right distance range and it improves to 1 in 4. For a horse still only three years old with the season very much alive, that is a number worth keeping an eye on.