Ebony Warrior

The win rate of roughly 1 in every 7 races might not sound spectacular on paper, but the fuller picture is more encouraging. Both wins have come on normal ground conditions, where he's converted 2 from 7 — nearly 1 in 3, which is a genuinely strong ratio and suggests he's a different horse when the track is neither baked hard nor churned up. If you're ever watching him run, check the ground first.

His most regular partner in the saddle is Kielan Woods, and that combination clearly works. Woods has ridden him nine times and won twice — a win rate of 22%, or just over 1 in 4 — which is notably better than his overall career average. Good horse-and-jockey partnerships matter more than casual observers might realise; familiarity builds trust, and trust can be the difference between a horse running for you or running within itself.

Ebony Warrior is trained at Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire by the dual-handler team of David Killahena and Graeme McPherson, a yard that has sent out 18 winners already this season — so this is clearly a functioning, productive operation rather than a quiet backwater. He tends to compete at Class 4 level, the solid working tier of British racing below the glamour events, where he's won 2 from 11. His first win came at Worcester in July 2024, and his most recent at Warwick in March 2025 — and with his last race just one day ago, he is very much a horse in active campaign.

Recent form shows two fifth-place finishes in his latest outings, which isn't the results column lighting up, but he's clearly being kept busy and the team haven't lost faith. At eight, he's an experienced, consistent performer who earns his keep at a competitive level and runs well on the right day — particularly when the ground plays ball.