Havana Pusey

Start with the ground. On fast, dry ground, Havana Pusey has won 3 times from 12 races — a 25% win rate, or 1 in every 4 races. That is a meaningful jump from the overall average and suggests this is a horse that genuinely thrives when conditions are in its favour. Teams planning their season around a horse like this will be watching the weather forecasts closely.

Then there is Windsor. Two wins from just 5 races at that track is the kind of record that makes bookmakers uncomfortable. Winning 2 in 5 anywhere is impressive; doing it consistently at the same venue suggests the horse has a real affinity for the track — the layout, the turns, perhaps the atmosphere. Course specialists like this are quietly valuable precisely because they are so predictable when the stars align.

Havana Pusey is trained by John Gallagher, whose yard in Chastleton, Oxfordshire has sent out 8 winners already this season — a team clearly in good form. The horse typically competes at Class 4 level, which sits in the middle of the racing ladder, and has won 2 of its 9 races at that level, a rate of roughly 1 in every 4-and-a-half races. Crucially, the horse is not just making up the numbers: it ran third as recently as six days before its latest win, showing it was already ticking along nicely.

That latest win came at Great Yarmouth on 28 April 2026 — just last week — which makes this one of the freshest winners in the sport right now. Only a day has passed since Havana Pusey last raced, so the horse is right in the middle of an active campaign. With dry ground in the forecast and a proven liking for certain tracks, there is every reason to think this story has more chapters still to come.