More Thunder

The Newmarket connection is worth dwelling on. Three wins from five races at the same track is the kind of record that makes trainers keep coming back, and William Haggas has done exactly that. Haggas runs one of the most powerful operations in British racing — 170 winners in a single season is a serious number, roughly one every other day — and when a yard that productive keeps pointing a horse at the same track, it tends to mean something. Newmarket suits More Thunder, and More Thunder suits Newmarket.

Class 2 races sit just below the very top tier of British racing, and More Thunder has made them look routine: three wins from four attempts, a 75% win rate that is genuinely extraordinary at that level. Then, in August 2025 at Newbury, it stepped up into a Class 1 — one of the biggest races in the country — and won that too. That is the kind of performance that reframes everything you thought you knew about a horse.

The partnership with Tom Marquand is another thread worth pulling. Four wins from five rides together — that is 80%, or four out of every five times they have paired up. That is not luck; that is a jockey who understands how this horse thinks and a horse that seems to run its best when Marquand is in the saddle.

Overall, More Thunder has won 5 of its 11 career races, placing in the other 6 — meaning it has never finished out of the top three. That kind of consistency across an entire career is rare, and it suggests a horse that competes hard every time it steps onto a track. Whatever comes next, it arrives in the best form of its life.