Perseus Way

The key to unlocking this horse is the ground. On slightly soft conditions — the kind of surface you get after a day or two of autumn rain — Perseus Way transforms. Three wins from just 5 races in those conditions is a 60% win rate, which is extraordinary. Most competitive racehorses win somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of their races across a career, so winning 3 in every 5 on soft ground tells you this horse genuinely loves getting its feet into the turf. Pair that with a distance of a mile and six furlongs to two miles, where it has won 3 of 8 races, and you have a horse with a very clear profile: middle-distance, slightly wet, and dangerous.

The quality is there too. Perseus Way won a Class 2 race at Huntingdon in January 2023 — one of the better races you will find outside the very top tier — which shows this is a horse capable of competing at a serious level, not just filling out fields at smaller meetings. That win sits alongside five others stretching back to a first career victory at Leicester in October 2021, a record built steadily over nearly five years of racing.

Tristan Davidson, operating out of a yard in Irthington in Cumbria, has sent out 21 winners already this season — a strong total that suggests a well-run operation in good form. Jamie Moore, who rides Perseus Way most regularly, has won 2 of their 6 races together, a win rate of 33%, which is well above average and points to a real understanding between horse and rider.

Most tellingly, Perseus Way won at Hexham just this week — as recently as yesterday — which means this is a horse peaking right now, in form, and on a track that suits northern-trained horses perfectly. Back it up with two wins from its last six races and recent placings either side of those wins, and this is a horse absolutely worth keeping an eye on while the ground stays soft.