Double Oban

The jockey partnership with Sean Bowen is one of the most striking numbers in this profile. In five races together, Bowen has guided Double Oban to three wins — that's a 60% win rate, or 3 from 5, which by any measure is an extraordinary hit rate. For context, most jockey-horse combinations that work well might win 1 in 4 or 1 in 5. When Bowen is in the saddle, something clearly clicks.

Double Oban is trained by Olly Murphy at his yard in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, and that is no small thing. Murphy's team has sent out 146 winners this season alone — a prolific operation by any standard, and the kind of yard that knows exactly when and where to place a horse to give it the best chance of winning.

Leicester has a special place in this horse's story. That's where the first career win came, back in May 2023, and it's where the most recent win landed too — on 28 December 2025. The recent form reads 5-5-1-2-9-1, meaning a win, then a bad run, then a solid second, then another win. It has raced as recently as yesterday, so this is a horse very much in the thick of its season. Two wins from its last six races puts it in decent nick, and with Bowen seemingly the key that unlocks this horse, the combination is worth keeping an eye on whenever those two are paired up again.