Gintime

The career record — one win and two places from eight races — tells you this is not a horse that dominates, but it is not one that simply makes up the numbers either. That single win came at Sedgefield on Boxing Day 2025, which is worth pausing on. Racing on 26 December is chaotic, festive, and brilliantly well-attended. Getting it right on that day, at that track, suggests Gintime and the team had things lined up carefully. Four months on, that remains the only win on the record.

What is harder to explain is the partnership with jockey Danny McMenamin. He has ridden Gintime six times and is yet to win together — a record of zero from six is the kind of statistic that raises an eyebrow. That is not necessarily a knock on either horse or rider; plenty of perfectly good combinations simply have not clicked yet, or have been unlucky with timing. But it is a fact worth knowing.

At Class 4 level — the bread and butter of British jump racing, one step below the truly competitive middle tier — Gintime has won one from four races, which works out at 25%, or roughly one in every four attempts. That is a perfectly respectable ratio at that level, and it suggests when conditions fall right, the horse is competitive. Recent form reads 8-5-9-1-4-4 going back from the latest run, meaning that Boxing Day win is sandwiched between some pretty ordinary efforts. Gintime raced just yesterday, so there is clearly no shortage of enthusiasm from the team to keep the horse busy. Whether another win is coming soon is the question — but with Richards in the saddle of a productive season and a horse that has already shown it can deliver on a big day, the answer might not be far away.