Faoladh

That sole win came at Leopardstown in June 2025, and it's worth pausing on that. Leopardstown is one of Ireland's most prestigious venues — a track where quality matters and ordinary horses rarely shine. Winning there, even once, tells you something about Faoladh's ceiling. The problem since then is the floor. The last six runs read 3-6-4-9-10-5, a sequence that dips worryingly deep before clawing back into respectability. That tenth-place finish is the kind of result that raises questions, but the most recent run — a third — offers a reason to keep watching.

Faoladh is trained and ridden by Andrew Slattery, based out of Thurles in County Tipperary. It's unusual for the same person to both train and ride a horse, and it creates an interesting dynamic — Slattery knows this horse as well as anyone alive. Together they've raced eight times, winning once, which works out at roughly 1 in every 8 races as a combination. More broadly, Slattery's yard has sent out 60 winners this season, which is a seriously productive operation. That context matters: this isn't a struggling small-time setup sending out hopefuls — it's a yard that knows how to win races, which suggests Faoladh is kept in training because the team genuinely believes there's another victory in the horse.

With a race just yesterday, Faoladh is clearly being kept busy. The question now is whether that June 2025 win at Leopardstown was the beginning of something or a solitary high point. The recent third-place finish hints the horse is coming back into form. Racing is full of horses who look ordinary for long stretches before suddenly clicking — and at just four years old, Faoladh has time on its side.