Fascinating Lips

Lingfield Park is where Fascinating Lips truly comes alive. Two wins from just 7 races there — that's nearly 1 in every 3 — makes it one of the more reliable course specialists at that track. The first win came on 20 July 2022, and the most recent as recently as 2 August 2025, which tells you this horse hasn't simply aged out of competing. It raced just yesterday, which underlines that this is still very much an active campaign rather than a horse winding down.

Normal ground suits it well too. On standard conditions, Fascinating Lips has won 2 from 13 races — around 15%, or roughly 1 in every 6 to 7 outings. That's a noticeably sharper figure than its overall record suggests, and it points to a horse that needs things to go right underfoot to show its best. Put it on its preferred surface at its favourite track and the numbers stack up rather nicely.

Tom Queally has been the regular partner, riding Fascinating Lips in 11 of its races together for 1 win — about 1 in every 11 rides, which mirrors the overall career average rather than adding to it. Trainer Paddy Butler operates a small yard out of East Chiltington in East Sussex and has sent out 4 winners this season, so this is a modest but functioning operation rather than a big commercial stable. Most of Fascinating Lips' racing has come at Class 6 level — the entry-level tier of British racing — where it has won 2 from 15 races, or 13%, roughly 1 in 8.

The last 6 races have produced no wins — finishes of fifth and a string of fourths — so the form is steady rather than spectacular right now. But with Lingfield Park on its record and a win there as recently as last summer, it would be unwise to write this one off entirely.