Flushing Meadows

His one victory came at The Curragh in June 2025, and it told a clear story about where he was heading. After the win, trainer Aidan O'Brien — who operates out of Cashel, Co Tipperary, and has sent out an extraordinary 144 winners already this season — was already mapping out bigger targets. The Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot came up as a possibility, though O'Brien ultimately steered back toward home, with the Railway Stakes at The Curragh looking the more likely next step. The fact that Ascot was even in the conversation for a horse at that stage tells you something about how the team rated him.

What has happened since is arguably more interesting. Before his most recent run, O'Brien described him as a horse who had finished second in a couple of Group 3 races — which are among the better-quality races on the calendar — and came through the winter in good shape. The trainer's view is that he is a horse suited to a mile and a quarter, and possibly further. That is a meaningful comment. Horses who stay longer distances tend to keep improving as they mature, and O'Brien knows better than most what a classic-distance horse looks like at this age.

His recent form reads 5-8-2-2-1 from newest to oldest, which shows the two placed runs sandwiched around that win, and then two less convincing efforts since. He raced just one day ago, so he is very much a live, active horse whose story is still being written. At three years old, with Group 3 experience already banked and a trainer who wins roughly one in every four races he enters this season, Flushing Meadows is the sort of horse worth keeping an eye on as the summer programme unfolds.