Fistral Beach

The overall career picture — 5 wins and 14 places from 34 races — tells the story of a horse that is competitive far more often than it wins. That is not a criticism. Finishing in the first three in nearly 56% of all races means Fistral Beach is almost always involved, just not always first to the line. The recent form backs that up nicely: over the last six races, the sequence reads third, second, first, third, first, fifth — two wins mixed in with a string of placed efforts, suggesting the horse is in a good patch right now.

All five career wins have come at Class 6 level, which sits at the lower end of the racing ladder. Four of those five wins have come in that grade from 23 attempts, a win rate of 17% — or roughly 1 in 6. That is perfectly solid at this level, where competition can still be surprisingly tough and finding the right race at the right time is its own skill. The first win came at Southwell in March 2025, and the most recent — at Wolverhampton, naturally — was just five weeks ago, so the horse is in form and racing regularly.

John Mackie trains Fistral Beach from his yard in Church Broughton, Derbyshire, and has had 15 winners from the yard this season alone, so this is clearly a team that knows how to place its horses well. Jockey Jack Doughty has the clearest understanding of the horse, riding it in 10 of its races and winning 2 of them — a win rate of 20%, or 1 in every 5 rides together, which is actually above the horse's overall average. With a race just yesterday and a Wolverhampton win only five weeks ago, Fistral Beach looks like a horse whose the yard — sorry, whose trainer — has found exactly the right formula.