Only For Our Man

That sole win came at Down Royal on 12 April 2026, and what makes it worth noting is the timing: this horse raced just yesterday, meaning it is right in the middle of an active campaign. Look at the last six runs and you see a horse that has genuinely clicked into form — a win, a second place, and another second place among those outings, with only one really poor result (a tenth-place finish) interrupting what is otherwise a consistent recent run. Horses can go through long spells where everything feels slightly out of reach, and then something shifts. The pattern here suggests something has shifted.

Behind the horse is Paul Nolan's yard in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, a training operation that has sent out 25 winners already this season. That is a yard in form, and a yard in form tends to keep horses in form. Nolan is not a trainer who sends horses out to make up the numbers; when his team has a horse travelling this well, it is worth paying attention.

Only For Our Man is not yet a horse with a big career total or a string of high-level wins to its name, but right now — actively racing, recently winning, in the hands of a yard firing on all cylinders — it is exactly the kind of horse that can take another step forward before the season is out.