Faiyum

The career started in earnest at Naas in March 2025, and Faiyum has barely looked back since. Recent form reads 1-1-2-1-3-4 going backwards through the record — two wins, a second, another win, a third, and a fourth. That fourth-place finish is the only time Faiyum has raced without getting a piece of the prize money. For a horse that has only raced six times in its life, that kind of consistency is genuinely unusual.

Colin Keane has been the regular partner in the saddle, riding in 5 of those 6 races and winning 3 of them — a 60% win rate together, which is an extraordinary partnership by any measure. When a jockey of Keane's calibre keeps coming back to the same horse and keeps winning, it tells you something about how much confidence the team has in Faiyum.

The most recent win came at Gowran Park on 20 September 2025, and the horse raced again just yesterday, keeping up a busy schedule through the season. G M Lyons is clearly not shy about running this horse, and why would he be? The yard has sent out 49 winners already this season — this is a serious, high-functioning operation — and Faiyum looks like one of its better current weapons. A horse this consistent, this young, and this willing to travel to different tracks and perform is exactly the kind of animal that keeps a racing yard buzzing.