Lord Bertie

The six-year-old is trained by David O'Meara at Upper Helmsley in North Yorkshire, one of the most productive yards in Britain right now — 107 winners sent out this season alone. That kind of operation knows exactly what it has in each horse, and with Lord Bertie, the message is fairly clear: wait for the right conditions, then aim. His most recent win came at Doncaster in October 2025, and while that was seven months ago, he raced just yesterday, so he is very much a live, active part of the yard's string.

His recent form makes for interesting reading: his last six results read 12-6-15-1-3-2, which tells a story of a horse that goes missing sometimes but shows real quality at other moments. That win and second place buried in the sequence suggest he hasn't lost the ability — he just needs things to fall right. At his level, Class 3 races — a solid tier of competition, one or two rungs below the top races in Britain — he has managed 1 win from 9, which is modest, but given how condition-dependent he is, that number might flatter the days when the ground was against him.

One question mark hangs over his partnership with jockey Cian Horgan, who has ridden him five times without a win. That's a small sample, but it's a notable blank next to an overall career record that shows he absolutely can win. Whether O'Meara decides to mix things up in the saddle when the forecast looks promising could be worth watching. Lord Bertie's first win came back in August 2022 at Ffos Las in Wales, and four wins from 25 races since then is a modest headline — but the wet-ground version of this horse, on his day, is something else altogether.