Les's Destiny Star

The horse typically lines up in Class 5 races, which are the bread-and-butter events that fill out a racing card rather than the big occasions that grab headlines. At that level, it has won 1 from 4 races — that is 25%, or roughly one in every four attempts, which is actually a decent return when you look at it that way. The trouble is that broader record of 1 win from 9 career races, an 11% win rate across the board, which works out to roughly one in every nine. Something has been getting in the way of translating that Class 5 promise into results consistently.

Ben Jones rides it most often — five times in the saddle for that one win together, a win rate of 20%, or about one in five — and the partnership clearly delivered on the day that mattered. The horse is trained by Ben Pauling at Naunton in Gloucestershire, and Pauling is having a strong season: 91 winners sent out so far, which is the kind of number that tells you this is a yard operating at a high level. Les's Destiny Star raced just yesterday, so it is firmly in the mix and being kept busy. Whether it can rediscover the form that made Doncaster such a good day is the question the team will be hoping to answer soon.