Jeriko Du Reponet

Nicky Henderson's yard at Upper Lambourn has sent out 85 winners this season alone, making it one of the most powerful stables in Britain. Henderson tends not to get easily excited, which makes his confidence in this horse worth noting. He has described Jeriko Du Reponet as a natural over fences — and the horse's most trusted jockey, Nico de Boinville, apparently agreed, rating him the yard's standout prospect when he first tackled that discipline. The problem is that Jeriko Du Reponet has not always agreed with that assessment on the day. At Sandown, in a race Henderson fully expected him to win, the horse simply lost the plot before a fence was jumped. It was, in Henderson's own words, a bizarre chapter of circumstances — and it forced the team to tear up the plan and switch back to hurdling for a spell.

That detour actually ended well. Jeriko Du Reponet finished second at Cheltenham — one of the most competitive venues in racing — and then went one better at Punchestown in May 2025, giving him a win to end the season on. Henderson wasted no time: fences are the future, he said, because the horse is simply good at it. The Sandown episode looks less like a permanent flaw and more like a horse that needed time to settle into the job.

His record at Newbury is the clearest evidence of what he can do at his best: 2 wins from just 3 races there, which is a dominance that most horses never achieve over a single track. Add to that a Class 1 win at Doncaster in January 2024 — a top-level race, the kind that defines careers — and you have a horse who has already proved he belongs at the highest level. He has raced five times at that level and won once, which sounds modest, but Class 1 fields are as good as British racing gets. Showing up and competing is already saying something. Jeriko Du Reponet, when his mind is right, says quite a bit more than that.