Ravenglass

Adrian Wintle's yard at Westbury-on-Severn has been in fine form this season, sending out 30 winners, and Ravenglass has played its part. The horse's most recent win came at Chepstow in May 2025, which is now roughly 12 months ago — and the last six runs have produced nothing better than a third place. A sequence of 3-7-6-4-4-7 (reading from that last win forwards) suggests a horse that is competing honestly without quite finding the winning thread again. That said, it raced just yesterday, so it is very much still in the thick of things.

Where Ravenglass does its best work is over distances between seven furlongs and a mile — it has won 4 of its 30 races at those trips, which is roughly 1 in every 7 and accounts for almost all of its career wins. Normal ground suits it well too: on standard conditions, it has won 2 of 10 races, or 1 in 5, which is a noticeably better record than across the rest of its career. If you see Ravenglass lining up at around a mile on a dry, normal track, that is when it is operating in its sweet spot.

Joe Leavy is the jockey who knows this horse best, with 2 wins from 11 rides together — roughly 1 in every 5, which is comfortably above the horse's overall average. That partnership is worth keeping an eye on. The first win in this story came at Redcar in August 2022, and all five career wins have come at Class 6 level, which is the entry level of British racing. With £0 implied by the facts given on earnings, this is not a horse built for the grand stages — but for a modest yard in Gloucestershire, a horse that has won five times and placed 24 more is doing exactly what it needs to do.