Lazare de Star

That sole win came at Leopardstown on 28 December 2025, one of Ireland's most prestigious tracks and a venue that attracts serious competition over the Christmas festival period. Winning there on debut is no small thing — it suggests the horse was ready and good enough when it mattered. The recent form reading of 8-2-1-2 shows the sequence in reverse, so working backwards: second, then the Leopardstown win, then second again, then an eighth. That eighth is the one blemish, but the horse has clearly improved sharply since then and is currently on a two-race podium streak.

The trainer is Gordon Elliott, one of the most powerful yards in Irish racing. Based at Longwood in County Meath, Elliott's team has sent out 209 winners already this season — a number that puts the operation in an elite bracket. Training winners is hard; training over 200 in a season requires an industrial level of skill, organisation, and horsepower. The fact that Lazare de Star is part of that string means it is surrounded by serious care and serious competition for race entries, so when Elliott puts this horse on a racecourse, there is genuine intent behind it.

Still only five and currently active, Lazare de Star has the profile of a horse just beginning to find its feet. Four races is a small sample, but the trend is pointing firmly upward.