Macadam's Rock

The numbers elsewhere on his record are more modest. Across his entire career he has won 4 times from 35 races, which works out at roughly 1 in every 9 — not a high win rate, but he has placed 11 times on top of that, meaning he has given his the yard something to cheer in nearly half his races. His best distance range is 7 furlongs to a mile, where he wins at almost 1 in every 5 races — 4 wins from 21 attempts — a significantly better record than his overall figures suggest. Get him to Dundalk at the right trip and you have a very different horse.

His most recent win came at Dundalk on 11 April 2025, and his recent form has been patchier since then — finishing 14th, 14th, 12th, and 12th in four subsequent outings before a return to form with a second-place finish. He raced again just one day ago, so he is a horse very much in the thick of his season. Trained by Hilary McLoughlin out of Thurles in County Tipperary, a yard that has sent out 2 winners so far this season, he is regularly partnered by Ben Coen, who has ridden him in 9 of his races and won once aboard him — that same 1-in-9 pattern holding firm.

At 8 years old, Macadam's Rock is not a young horse chasing big prizes. His career earnings and level of competition tell the story of a tough, durable campaigner who turns up consistently and occasionally delivers — particularly when the race is at Dundalk. For anyone watching him run there, especially over seven furlongs to a mile, they are seeing him in exactly the conditions where the best version of this horse tends to show up.