Larkfield Lusive

Those last six races read 3-6-7-1-1-2, and that sequence tells a genuine story. Back-to-back wins in May and June 2025, at Perth and then Market Rasen, showed a horse that had found its level and was making the most of it. Two wins from the last six races is a completely different rhythm to the career average, and it suggests that whatever clicked for Larkfield Lusive during that spell was real. The most recent win came at Market Rasen on 20 June 2025 — just under eleven months ago now — but the horse raced as recently as yesterday, so this is very much a live, active campaign.

The trainer is L J Morgan, based in Waltham on the Wolds in Leicestershire, and the yard has been in decent form this season with 14 winners already sent out. At Class 5 level — the kind of races where horses are competing for their rank rather than chasing the sport's biggest prizes — Larkfield Lusive has won 2 of 15 races, a win rate of 13%, or roughly 1 in every 7 or 8 attempts. That is meaningfully better than the overall career average and confirms that the horse races most effectively at this grade.

One interesting wrinkle is the partnership with regular jockey Shane Fenelon. He has ridden the horse in 5 of its races and is yet to get a win from any of them. That is not necessarily damning — sample sizes in racing can be misleading — but it is worth noting that neither of the recent wins came with Fenelon aboard. On normal ground conditions, Larkfield Lusive has won 2 of 10 races, a 20% win rate, or 1 in every 5. That is a genuinely strong return, and it flags that when conditions are right, this horse delivers far more often than the headline numbers suggest.