Midnight Eagle

That single win came at Limerick on 10 April 2025, and it remains the high point of a career that has otherwise been defined by near-misses and mid-pack finishes. The recent run of form makes for tough reading: in the last six races, the best result is a second place, followed by a ninth, a fifteenth, a twelfth, a fourteenth, and most recently a third. There is some encouragement in that third-place finish, but the overall picture is of a horse that is finding it hard to recapture the form that brought it that Limerick success.

Regular jockey Cian Cullinan has been in the saddle for ten of Midnight Eagle's races without finding the winner's enclosure together — though it is worth noting that the horse's sole career win came before their partnership took shape. Trainer Aengus King operates out of Newmarket-On-Fergus in County Clare, and his yard has sent out five winners already this season, which shows the operation is capable of getting horses ready to win. The challenge now is finding the right opportunity to get Midnight Eagle back into the frame.

Racing just yesterday, this is very much a horse in active campaign, and King clearly believes there is another win in there somewhere. Whether Midnight Eagle can find it remains to be seen, but the fact that it has already won at Limerick once gives the team something to aim at — sometimes a horse just needs the stars to align again at a track it has already conquered.