Montemares

Both wins came in a tight window late in 2025 — first at Hereford in November, then at Market Rasen in December — suggesting Montemares hit a rich vein of form and made the most of it. The most recent race was just yesterday, so this is a horse very much in the thick of its season right now. That said, the win at Market Rasen was around four months ago, and the two most recent results — a fifth and an unplaced run — hint that recapturing that late-2025 sharpness might be the current challenge.

Montemares is trained by Tom Lacey, who operates out of Woolhope in Herefordshire. Lacey's yard has sent out 37 winners already this season, which tells you this is a training operation that knows how to get horses ready to win. A trainer firing at that kind of volume tends to have a clear plan for every horse in the yard, and Montemares, with its solid record and recent racing activity, looks like one they are keeping busy for good reason. With a few more races to come, there's every chance those winning runs of late 2025 are not the last we'll see from this one.