Far From Dandy

Dundalk is where this horse does its best work. Two wins from 4 races there makes it a 50% winner at that track, which is a remarkable return when you consider that even elite horses rarely win half their races anywhere. The most recent of those came on 19 December 2025, and before that, Far From Dandy had taken a race at Great Yarmouth back in September 2024 — an away trip to England that clearly posed no problem. Some horses are creatures of habit and home comforts. This one travels.

The recent form makes for interesting reading too: reading from most recent backwards, it goes 2-2-4-6-1-1. That means after a couple of disappointing runs — finishing sixth and fourth — Far From Dandy has bounced back to win two of its last six outings, the yard clearly knowing exactly when to aim this horse. It raced just one day ago, so it is very much in the middle of an active campaign rather than building towards one.

Stephen Thorne trains this horse from Rush in County Dublin, and his yard has been in fine shape this season with 24 winners already on the board. That kind of output means Thorne knows how to place a horse to its best advantage, and the pattern here — targeting Dundalk on normal ground, where the horse has won 2 from 4 at 50% — suggests exactly that kind of careful management. Far From Dandy isn't a horse being thrown at the biggest races; it's being pointed at the situations where it wins, which, from a punter's perspective, is all you really want to see.