Manothepeople

The bigger picture of his career makes for interesting reading too. Across 25 races, Manothepeople has won 6 and placed in 11 more — meaning he has finished in the top places in roughly two thirds of all his races. That is a horse who very rarely runs badly. His win rate sits at around 1 in every 4 races (24%), and at the Class 2 level — one of the top tiers in British racing — he has won 2 of 10, which works out at 1 in every 5. For an 11-year-old still competing at that standard, that is a career worth respecting.

He is trained by Fergal O'Brien, whose yard in Withington, Gloucestershire has been in excellent form this season — 90 winners and counting, which puts them firmly among the leading operations in the country. His most regular jockey is Jonathan Burke, who has ridden him in 8 of his races and won once together. That partnership is still searching for its best, winning roughly 1 in every 8 races they have shared.

The honest caveat is that his recent form has cooled. He has not won in his last 6 races, with a run of finishes reading 6th, 5th, 13th, 7th, 4th — and a fall or pulled-up run mixed in. At 11, horses do not tend to get faster, and the question now is whether he has another big Cheltenham moment left in him, or whether that April 2025 victory was the peak of the story. Either way, a horse who has won two top-level races at the most iconic jump track in the world, in consecutive years, has already written a profile worth reading.