Mo Ghille Mar

The most recent win came just days ago at Wexford, which makes this a profile worth reading right now. That victory continues a pattern worth noting: Mo Ghille Mar absolutely loves slightly soft, wet ground, winning 2 of just 3 races in those conditions — a stunning two-thirds success rate that dwarfs its overall average. When the rain has been down and the ground is soft underfoot, this horse transforms. For context, its overall win rate is roughly 1 in every 7 races across a 34-race career, so those soft-ground numbers are genuinely striking.

Distance matters too. At a mile and three to a mile and four furlongs — a middle-distance trip that suits a horse with stamina rather than pure speed — Mo Ghille Mar has won 2 from 6, which works out at 1 in every 3. That kind of record at a specific distance is a trainer's signpost: run here, in these conditions, and you're in business.

The horse is trained by John Joseph Hanlon at Bagenalstown in County Carlow, a yard that has already sent out 11 winners this season — a productive operation that clearly knows how to place its horses to best effect. Shane Foley is the regular partner in the saddle, the pair combining for 2 wins from 13 races together, which mirrors the horse's broader win rate and suggests a settled, familiar partnership.

The recent form — a win followed by a sixth just before that — hints at a horse that can be in and out, and the run of thirteenth-place finishes before the latest victory shows the inconsistency that has defined much of the career. But the fact that Mo Ghille Mar has now won its first race of 2026 and did so this week, on ground it loves, at a distance that suits it, means this is a horse to watch very closely any time the forecast turns wet.