Kameel

The other ingredients matter too. Both wins came on normal ground, and over distances between seven furlongs and a mile. At that trip range, Kameel has won 2 of 5 races — that's a 40% win rate, which is genuinely impressive at any level of the sport. Put it on the right track, at the right distance, on the right ground, and this is a horse that becomes a serious proposition. Outside those conditions, it's a different story.

Jessica Macey trains the horse from her yard in Doncaster, and it has been a productive season for the team — 13 winners sent out so far. Kameel competes mostly at Class 5, which is the bread-and-butter level of British racing, and has won 1 of its 5 races there. The most recent win came at Newcastle in February 2025, now 15 months ago, and recent form reads 5-9-3-7-8-4 — no wins in the last six races, with only one placing in the mix. The horse raced just yesterday, so it is very much in the thick of its season right now.

The puzzle with Kameel is whether those Newcastle wins were a sign of a horse finding its groove, or something that has proved harder to repeat than expected. Fifteen months without a win is a long gap, and the recent form figures don't suggest a horse threatening to break through imminently. But form in racing can shift quickly, and if the yard ever find themselves back at Newcastle, over a mile, on a dry summer surface, Kameel has already shown it knows how to win there — twice.