I've Been Dreaming

That single win came at Galway back in October 2023, now over 30 months ago, and it remains the high point of a career that has found the going tough since. The recent form figures tell the story plainly: after that win, the horse has finished 12th, 1st... wait — the sequence, read from most recent to oldest, shows a run of double-digit finishes bookending that Galway success. Finishing 15th, 17th, and 13th in consecutive races is the kind of form that tests everyone's patience, and whoever has kept faith with this horse deserves some credit for sticking around.

The one genuinely encouraging detail is the performance over seven furlongs to a mile — at that trip, I've Been Dreaming has won 1 from 3 races, which is a solid 33%, or roughly 1 in every 3. That is a meaningfully different picture from the overall record, and it suggests the horse has a preferred setting in which it can genuinely compete. Galway, where the win came, is a unique track — tight, turning, and unforgiving of horses that don't handle a crowd — so winning there at all is not nothing.

Fahey's yard has been in decent nick this season, sending out 24 winners, which shows this is a functioning, competitive operation rather than a quiet backwater. The horse raced just one day ago, so it is clearly fit and being kept active. Whether another win is coming is hard to say — 30 months is a long gap to bridge — but if the conditions are right and the trip is between seven furlongs and a mile, this is a horse that has shown it knows where the winning post is. The dreaming, for now, continues.