Handle With Care

The timing of the form is also eye-catching. Handle With Care won at Lingfield Park just this week on 12 May 2026, and its last six races read 1-7-4-3-1-6 — two wins tucked inside the most recent half-dozen, which represents a sharp upturn in form for a horse that had been patchy earlier in the season. First career win came at Lingfield back in March 2025, so in some ways the horse has been building to this point across a year of steady development.

Hollie Doyle is the jockey most closely associated with Handle With Care, and that partnership is worth paying attention to. Together they have won 2 from 8 races — 1 in every 4 — which is a noticeably better return than the horse's overall win rate. Doyle is one of the most decorated jockeys in Britain and clearly brings something out of this particular horse. Meanwhile, Botti's Newmarket yard has already sent out 45 winners this season, so Handle With Care is operating in genuinely productive stables rather than quietly ticking along in the background.

The horse does its best work at distances between seven furlongs and a mile, winning 2 of 6 races at those trips — 1 in every 3 — and it clearly prefers normal ground conditions, with all 3 career wins coming when the track is riding fairly standard. The competition it faces is mostly mid-level, and while it has not yet threatened a top race, the combination of a booming home track, a high-quality jockey partner, and a yard firing on all cylinders makes Handle With Care one of those horses you would be foolish to ignore when it turns up at Lingfield.