Jordans Cross

The most significant result so far came at Cheltenham in January 2026, when Jordans Cross won a Class 2 race — one of the top levels of competition in Britain. Cheltenham is the most famous jumping track in the world, a place where many horses that look brilliant elsewhere simply fail to deliver. Winning there, at that level, matters. Trainer Anthony Honeyball — who operates out of Mosterton in Dorset and has sent out 51 winners already this season — was clearly pleased but measured in his response, noting that the horse had proved it could handle the track and that it had probably managed to avoid a big penalty from the handicapper, giving it options for what comes next. His eye is already on the Cheltenham Festival, the sport's biggest meeting.

The plan, Honeyball has suggested, is to find a route to the Festival that avoids clashing too early with stablemate Kdeux Saint Fray, another horse with similar ambitions. He's also floated the National Hunt Chase as a possibility, and looking further ahead sees races like the Great Yorkshire Chase — a serious, stamina-heavy test — as the kind of event this horse is built for. The consistent thread running through everything is trip: Jordans Cross is a horse that needs distance to show its best, something jockey Ben Godfrey flagged immediately after winning on debut at Aintree, saying two miles was on the sharp side but that once they found a rhythm, he trusted the horse completely.

Godfrey has ridden Jordans Cross in five of its nine races and won two of them — a 40% win rate together — and that growing partnership matters. Jordans Cross is lightly raced and still improving. At Class 3 level it has won two from three races. The step up to Class 2 at Cheltenham has already been conquered. Where the ceiling is, nobody yet knows — but there is a strong sense around the yard that they have not seen the best of this horse yet.