Only Spoofing

Across 57 career races in total, Only Spoofing has won 5 times and placed a further 15, a win rate of around 1 in every 11 races overall. That is a fairly modest return, but the headline figure sells the Musselburgh story short. Strip those four wins out and you are looking at a horse that has won once everywhere else combined. Trained by Kevin Thomas Coleman at Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary — a yard that has sent out 10 winners already this season — Only Spoofing most regularly partners with jockey J M Sheridan, who has ridden it to 1 win from their 8 races together, a ratio of roughly 1 in 8.

One pattern worth noting is how the horse performs on normal ground conditions: all 5 career wins have come on standard ground, with a record of 5 wins from 23 races on that surface, meaning it wins roughly 1 in every 5 times conditions are right. On wet or faster ground, the wins dry up entirely.

Recent form has been quiet. Only Spoofing has not won in its last 6 races, with finishes of sixth, tenth, and fourth among them, and was out racing as recently as yesterday. That last win came at Musselburgh in April 2025 — so the course form is current, not ancient history. At 12 years old, this is a horse deep into its career, and the overall record suggests it is not going to trouble the top races. But if you ever see Only Spoofing declared at Musselburgh on a normal day, that is a horse stepping onto its favourite stage — and history says it knows exactly what to do when it gets there.