Mademoiselle Belle

That one win came at Newcastle on 14 February 2026 — a date worth remembering, because it has not been repeated since. Three months have passed and six races have gone by without a return to the winner's enclosure. Her recent form reads 6-2-9-5-3-6, which is a bit of a mixed bag: a second place in there suggests she can still run a big race, but the sixes on either end of that sequence are the kind of results that make you wonder if she is a little inconsistent by nature.

She races almost exclusively at Class 6 level, which is the entry level of British racing — the races where horses are working hard for relatively modest rewards. In those races, she has won 1 from 10, a 10% win rate, which is actually a touch better than her overall average and suggests she is reasonably suited to competing at that level. Her regular partner in the saddle is Ben Robinson, who has ridden her in 12 of her 20 races and was on board for that winning day at Newcastle. Together they win roughly 1 in every 13 races — a modest return, but the partnership clearly has enough trust to keep going.

She is trained by Brian Ellison at his yard in Norton, North Yorkshire, and the operation is in decent form right now — 43 winners on the board this season, which is a healthy output for a yard of that size. Mademoiselle Belle raced just yesterday, so she is clearly in an active campaign. Whether another win is around the corner is hard to say, but for a horse still only three, there is time yet to add a second chapter to the story that began on a February afternoon at Newcastle.