Mont St Michel

That single win came at Killarney on 22 August 2025, and it arrived over a long distance trip of two miles or more, which is where this horse clearly belongs. In three races at that kind of distance, Mont St Michel has won once and placed in others — a win rate of 33%, or one in three, which is a very different picture from the overall record. It suggests a horse that has perhaps been asked the wrong questions on shorter trips, and is only now finding its best conditions.

Trained by Denis Gerard Hogan at his yard in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, Mont St Michel is part of a genuinely productive operation. Hogan's team has sent out 56 winners this season alone, which is the mark of a yard firing on all cylinders. Recent form shows a string of mid-field finishes — ninth, tenth, thirteenth, tenth — before that winning breakthrough, and with the horse having raced just one day ago, there is clearly an appetite to keep it busy and build on what Killarney started. Whether the yard can find the right race to coax another win out of this horse over a staying trip will be the interesting question to follow.