Kitty Foyle

Trained by Daisy Hitchins out of Sherborne in Dorset, Kitty Foyle operates from a yard that has already sent out 14 winners this season, so there is clearly a confidence in how horses are placed and prepared there. Her most recent win came at Wincanton just five weeks ago — her best result in a sequence that reads 4-3-5-3-1-2 working back from her most recent run, which was just yesterday. That is a horse in seriously good form right now, hitting the board in five of her last six races.

One of the more telling numbers in her profile is how she performs on normal ground — she has won 2 of 7 races in those conditions, which works out at 29%, or roughly 1 in every 3. That is a dramatically better return than her overall record suggests, and it tells you that when the track suits her, she becomes a different proposition entirely. Her very first win came at Wolverhampton in April 2024, and she has built steadily from there.

The interesting puzzle is her record at Class 5, which is the level she races at most frequently — 11 races, zero wins. That sounds alarming until you consider that she has won elsewhere, suggesting she might actually be better suited stepping up a level where the competition, paradoxically, might race in a style that plays more to her strengths. Harry Reed, who rides her most often, has won 1 from their 6 races together — about 1 in 6 — which is decent but leaves room to think the best of that partnership may still be ahead of them.

With a win five weeks ago, another place just yesterday, and a clear preference for normal ground that any trainer can plan around, Kitty Foyle looks like a horse who has found her feet and is enjoying a purple patch. Daisy Hitchins will be hoping the ground plays ball.