Hurricane Bay

The wider career picture backs up the idea of a horse that performs reliably at a solid level. Five wins and 11 places from 25 races works out to a 20% win rate — winning roughly 1 in every 5 — and placing in nearly two thirds of all its races. That is the kind of consistency you associate with a professional rather than a flash-in-the-pan. It competes mostly in Class 3 races, which sit just below the very top tier, and it has won 2 of 8 at that level, around 1 in 4. Not dominant, but genuinely competitive.

One of the clearest patterns in its record is how much the ground matters. On normal conditions it has won 5 of 13 races — that is 38%, or better than 1 in 3. Trainer Lucy Wadham, who is based at Newmarket and has sent out 18 winners already this season, has spoken openly about needing fast, dry ground for this horse. When it was second at Doncaster in November 2025, she saw enough in the jumping to feel the run had done its job, and started planning which good-ground tracks to aim for next.

Bryony Frost has ridden Hurricane Bay in 10 of its races, winning 2 of them — that 20% win rate mirrors the horse's overall average, which suggests the pair have found a comfortable working rhythm. The first career win came at Doncaster back in November 2022, and the horse has kept finding the winner's enclosure in the years since without ever quite threatening the very top races. At ten years old and in winning form just days ago, Hurricane Bay is proof that some horses simply get better at knowing their job — and this one's job, right now, looks very much like turning up at Huntingdon and making everyone else look ordinary.