Edelak

Trained by Dan Skelton out of Alcester in Warwickshire, Edelak is part of one of British racing's most productive yards. Skelton's team has sent out 194 winners this season alone — a number that speaks to an operation that knows how to get horses to perform. Edelak was bought from the Aga Khan's famous breeding operation, a source that has produced generations of high-quality horses, and Skelton has spoken about pointing him towards jump racing in the near future. The expectation, then, is that the best is genuinely still to come.

His overall record reads two wins and four places from eight races — he's won 1 in every 4 he's entered, and placed in three out of every four. That's a horse that is rarely out of the action. But the more telling number is what happens when he races over his preferred trip of a mile and six furlongs to two miles: two wins from three races at those distances, a two-in-three success rate that suggests this is very much his sweet spot. Stretch him out and he becomes a different proposition.

His first win came at Galway in July 2025, and the story behind it is worth knowing. His jockey Georgie Benson explained after the race that he'd been a touch disappointing at the Curragh beforehand — a horse that was, in her words, thinking about things too much. The solution was blinkers, fitted during a good piece of work in the week before Galway. On the day, he travelled beautifully and did exactly what was asked of him. His most recent win came at Huntingdon this week, which suggests whatever the team has learned about how to get him travelling, it's sticking. A horse that knows how to win, with a trainer who knows how to place them — that combination tends to end up in the winner's enclosure more often than not.