Reckless Spending

What makes his story particularly interesting is the journey to get here. Nicky Henderson, one of the most respected trainers in the country, had long seen him as a horse built for chasing — jumping bigger fences at speed — but started him patiently over hurdles first to build experience. He had shown promise before arriving at Henderson's famous Upper Lambourn yard in Berkshire, finishing second in a point-to-point, which is a rough-and-ready amateur form of the sport. His first run for the yard came at Worcester, where he finished third, enough to suggest there was talent worth nurturing.

That talent started to show properly on 2 February 2026, when he broke his duck at Kempton Park — a slick, professional track where plenty of good horses have made their names. But the headline act came just this week, when Reckless Spending won again at Bangor-on-Dee on 18 April, making it two wins from his last six races. Back-to-back victories, even spread across a season, tell you a horse is in form and thriving.

The timing could hardly be better. Henderson's yard has been in tremendous shape this season, sending out 85 winners — a number that reflects not just the quality of the horses but the skill of the operation behind them. When a stable is firing on all cylinders like that, horses in form tend to stay in form. Reckless Spending raced just yesterday and, with Henderson already flagging him as a future chaser, the sense is that the best is still very much to come. He is, by every measure, a horse on the way up.