Naana's Sparkle

The recent form is where things get genuinely exciting. In the last six races, Naana's Sparkle has won three times — a sequence of 1-2-1-3-6-1 reading backwards through time — and that most recent victory came just this week at Great Yarmouth on 13 May 2026. A horse raced as recently as yesterday, winning at a track like Yarmouth, is a horse in the form of its life. This isn't a horse that's been pulled along by a kind draw or a weak field and stumbled into a win — it's on a genuine hot streak.

The trainer behind all this is Lemos De Souza, based at the famous racing town of Newmarket in Suffolk. The yard has sent out 18 winners already this season, which marks it out as a stable in good form overall — and Naana's Sparkle looks to be one of its flagbearers right now. The regular jockey is Kieran O'Neill, who has ridden the horse in 7 of its 13 races and won once together — that's roughly 1 in 7, a modest ratio that makes the horse's recent winning run all the more interesting, since it suggests Naana's Sparkle may have found a new level regardless of who's in the saddle.

The horse typically competes at Class 3, which sits near the top end of everyday British racing — not quite the headline events, but a level where the competition is serious and a 20% win rate (1 win from 5 races at that grade) is nothing to be embarrassed about. The journey started at Chelmsford in October 2024, when Naana's Sparkle broke its duck for the first time — and in less than two years since, it has developed into a horse that trainers and punters alike will be watching closely to see whether this purple patch has a little more to give.