Fashionelle

Her two wins have come at very different venues. The first arrived at Worcester in September 2024, then she backed it up with a second at Wolverhampton in January 2025 — and that Wolverhampton win is the one that matters most right now, because it came 15 months ago. Since then, across her last six races, she has finished 7th, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 6th, and 8th. That second place shows the ability is still there, flickering, but she has not been able to turn it into a victory. For a horse who has always needed everything to fall right on the day, it is a thin line between those near-misses and a third win.

Most of her racing has come at Class 5, which sits at the lower end of the sport's ranking system — these are races designed to give horses like Fashionelle a fair chance rather than throwing them in against elite competition. She has won 2 of her 14 races at that level, a rate of roughly 1 in 7, which is respectable without being exceptional. James Best has ridden her in 10 of those races, winning once together, and the partnership has a quiet familiarity even if the results have not always followed.

What makes Fashionelle worth watching is that she raced just yesterday and is clearly in an active campaign. At 7, she is an experienced competitor who knows what she is doing out there, and her recent second place shows the engine has not gone quiet. Whether she can find that winning feeling again is the open question — but with 14 places from 30 races, she has a habit of making things interesting even when the win does not come.