One Night Thunder

Trainer Gemma Tutty runs a busy yard out of Osmotherley in North Yorkshire — 20 winners already this season — and One Night Thunder has been one of her more reliable tools at Class 5 level, the bread-and-butter end of the sport. At that grade, he's won 3 from just 7 races, a 43% win rate. That's extraordinary frequency: nearly every other time he lines up in that company, he wins. Carlisle seems to bring out something special in him too; he won there twice in September 2025, most recently on the 9th of that month.

His recent form is a little more complicated. After those back-to-back wins at Carlisle, his last three runs have been a second place followed by two well-beaten efforts. Tutty has been candid about why: his comeback run at Thirsk left her suspicious something wasn't right, and when the scope confirmed it, the disappointing results made more sense. A horse that "scopes wrong" has shown signs of a respiratory issue — essentially, he wasn't able to breathe properly at his best. Knowing that turns those poor runs from a concern into a story with an explanation.

He raced just yesterday, so clearly the team feel he's back on the right track. Tutty has her eye on Haydock if rain arrives this weekend, and that's a meaningful detail — she specifically wants softer, wetter ground for him, the kind of conditions that suit a horse who needs the surface to give a little underfoot. Jockey Kaiya Fraser has partnered him five times for 1 win together, a 20% win rate that's perfectly decent. If the rain comes, One Night Thunder at Haydock on wet ground looks like exactly the scenario his trainer has been building towards.