Maillot Blanc

The recent form makes for genuinely encouraging reading. Over the last six races — reading most recent first — the record goes 1, 2, 3, 8, 2, 7. Strip out that one flat run and you have a horse that has been in or around the podium in five of its last six outings. That is not a coincidence; that is a horse in form. The win at Kelso this week, on 6 May 2026, is the most recent evidence of that, and it matters. Kelso is a track in the Scottish Borders that rewards horses who handle a fair test of jumping and stamina, and winning there says something about a horse's quality.

Maillot Blanc does its best work on normal ground — the kind of conditions you get on a decent spring or autumn day. On that surface, it has won 2 from 11 races, a win rate of 18%, or roughly 1 in every 6 outings. That is meaningfully better than its overall average and suggests the horse has a real preference worth noting.

The trainer is N W Alexander, based up in Leslie, Fife — deep in Scottish racing country. The yard has sent out 19 winners already this season, which shows this is an operation in good health. Bruce Lynn rides Maillot Blanc most often, the pair having teamed up 7 times with 1 win together — a win rate of around 1 in 7, or 14%. That is modest on paper, but the combination clearly has a feel for each other, and the Kelso win this week will have done nothing to shake that.

Most of Maillot Blanc's racing has come at Class 5 level — the bread and butter of the National Hunt calendar, where solid, honest horses do their work week in, week out. At 9, this horse is not getting younger, but with form this consistent and a winner just days ago, there is every reason to think there are more good days ahead.