Jolie Jewel

Her two wins have come at opposite ends of the calendar and at opposite ends of the country — Cork in May 2024 and Thurles in November 2025 — which hints at a horse that travels well and is not tied to one particular track or set of conditions. The Thurles win, now around five months ago, is the most recent high-water mark for Brian McMahon's yard in Scarriff, Co Galway, a small operation that has sent out four winners this season. Four winners from a yard of that size is solid, productive work, and Jolie Jewel has been part of that story.

Jockey Phillip Enright has partnered her in eight of her 18 races, winning once together — roughly 1 in every 8 rides. That is a modest return, but the consistency of the partnership suggests the yard trusts him to understand her, and that kind of familiarity with a tricky horse is often worth more than the bare numbers imply.

Her recent form does the honest talking: a win, then a string of mid-field finishes and one blank, with her latest run resulting in a fifteenth-place finish. That sequence suggests a horse coming off the back of her best recent effort and finding it hard to reproduce it — not unusual, but worth noting. She is currently active, so whatever comes next will tell us whether November's Thurles win was a sign of a horse hitting form, or simply one of those days when everything clicked.