John W Creasy

Both of those wins are worth noting for how different they are. The first came at Lingfield Park in December 2024, a tight, technical track in Surrey that rewards horses who handle the bends well. The second arrived just over two months later at Ffos Las in Wales, in February 2025 — and that one is now 15 months in the rear-view mirror. Since then, six races and nothing to show for it. A fifth place here, a fifth place there, and a run of blanks that suggest he's finding it hard to reproduce that best form.

The class level is also telling. Most of John W Creasy's racing has come at Class 4, which sits in the middle of the pecking order in British racing — not the elite, not the bottom rung, but a competitive enough tier where a horse needs to be at his sharpest to win. He has raced nine times at that level without winning once, which suggests that when he does find the winner's enclosure, it tends to come in slightly different company or circumstances.

His most regular partner in the saddle is Bryan Carver, and together they have a record of 2 wins from 13 races — that's roughly 1 in every 6 or 7 rides together, which is actually a more respectable return than his overall career figure suggests. The partnership clearly suits him. Carver is based in the same part of the world as trainer Chris Honour, whose yard in Ashburton, Devon has sent out four winners this season. It's a small, regional operation, and for a horse like John W Creasy, there's something fitting about that — a reliable if unspectacular performer, trained by a team that knows him well. He raced just a day ago, so whatever comes next, he's still very much in the game.