Haveagobeau

The headline number is modest: a 6% win rate across a career spanning 36 races, or roughly 1 win in every 18 attempts. At that level you might expect a horse to drift into irrelevance. Instead, Haveagobeau has won 2 of its last 6 races, with form reading 5-1-2-6-2-1 — two wins bookending the sequence, with plenty of placed efforts in between. That is not a horse going through the motions. That is a horse in form.

Both wins have come at Lingfield Park, and that is where the story gets interesting. Haveagobeau has raced there 18 times — nearly half of its entire career — and won twice, which works out at roughly 1 in every 9 visits. That might not sound stunning, but for a horse that wins just once every 18 races overall, doubling that rate at one specific track is meaningful. Lingfield clearly suits. The tight turns, the synthetic surface, the distances — something about the place clicks. The first win there came in January 2026, the second just six weeks ago in late March. Jim Boyle's yard in Epsom, which has sent out 25 winners this season alone, seems to know exactly when to point this horse at its favourite venue.

The distance range also matters. At a mile and three furlongs to a mile and four furlongs, Haveagobeau wins 2 from 8 races — a 25% rate, or 1 in every 4. That is a genuinely strong number, and it is no coincidence that both wins have come at those sorts of trips. Pair that with normal ground conditions — where the record reads 2 wins from 16 races — and you have a horse with a very specific sweet spot: Lingfield, standard ground, around a mile and three or four furlongs.

Jockey Jack Dace has been along for most of the ride, partnering Haveagobeau in 14 of its races and winning twice — a 14% win rate with this particular horse, which is more than double the career average. The partnership works. With the horse raced as recently as yesterday and clearly in the form of its life, there may still be more chapters to write.