Ninth Crusade

The horse runs best over the shorter distances — between five and six and a half furlongs — where it has won 1 of 6 races, a 17% win rate at that trip. That competitive record at its preferred distance indicates M D O'Callaghan's team at The Curragh has correctly identified where Ninth Crusade is most effective. The yard itself is having a solid season with 18 winners to its name, so there is reasonable support behind this three-year-old's development. Recent form has been patchy: in its last six races it has finished second, tenth, third, sixth, second and sixth, suggesting the horse remains capable of near-miss efforts but has struggled to turn those into wins. Still, with just one win in fifteen months and no victory since June 2025, Ninth Crusade faces an uphill task to find the form that produced that early success.