Nas Na Riogh

Those two wins are worth understanding in context. De Bromhead explained that the horse had gone through a flat spell mid-season before the team freshened him up, and the turnaround was real — he won at Tipperary in April 2024 and followed it up with another win at Killarney the following month, described as a genuine battle. Two wins in quick succession after a difficult patch is exactly the kind of trajectory that gets a trainer excited about what comes next.

The wet ground is where he lives. On soft or muddy conditions, he has won 2 of his 8 races — a 25% win rate, or 1 in every 4 — which is a dramatically better record than his overall figures suggest. On faster ground he has struggled to make his mark, so when the rain comes, he becomes a more interesting proposition. The stable's representative at Tipperary was clear that better ground had been hoped for but that the horse had still shown up and run well regardless.

His most productive partnership has been with Rachael Blackmore, who has ridden him to both career wins from 6 rides together — winning 1 in every 3 times they've teamed up. That's a meaningful number, not a coincidence. His recent form reads 10th, pulled up, 11th, 4th, 6th, 6th, which is admittedly lean, but the yard's long-term plan has always been to send him over fences, and that switch to chasing is still ahead of him. He raced just yesterday, so there is plenty of season left, and for a horse trained in one of Ireland's most active yards, the next chapter may be the most interesting one yet.