Phaedra

The clearest thing the numbers tell you is where and when she's at her best. On normal ground — not too wet, not too firm — she has won 2 of her 5 races, a 40% win rate that is genuinely striking. That's not a horse who happens to have won twice on good ground; that's a horse who transforms on it. Pair that with her preferred distance of a mile and three-quarters to two miles and you have a fairly specific set of requirements, but when they're met, she delivers. Two wins from five races at that trip is the kind of return that would make any trainer sit up and take notice.

She runs mostly at Class 5, the bread-and-butter level of British racing, and has won 1 of her 9 races there — about 1 in every 9 — which is modest enough to confirm she's no superstar, but her places suggest she's competitive. Her first career win came at Chepstow in May 2025, and she followed that up with a win at Ripon in August. Since then, however, she hasn't managed to get back to the winner's enclosure across her last 6 races, with a form line of 4-2-7-2-2-12 that shows plenty of placed efforts but also that disappointing last run.

Trainer Joey Ramsden, based in Newark, has sent out 5 winners this season from his Nottinghamshire yard, which suggests a yard in decent enough nick. Phaedra raced just one day ago, so she's clearly a horse being kept busy. The question now is whether Ramsden can find her the right combination — normal ground, a long distance, and a field she can dominate — to end that eight-month winning drought. When all the pieces align, she's shown she can be very hard to beat.