Redarna

Winning 3 from 11 at a single track works out at roughly 27%, which is a remarkable number when you consider the overall career win rate sits at around 1 in every 6 races (16%). Ayr clearly suits Redarna in a way that few other tracks do, and the team at Dianne Sayer's Cumbrian yard have been smart enough to keep coming back. Sayer, who trains out of Hackthorpe, has had 15 winners already this season — a yard clearly in good form — and Redarna remains part of her active string, having raced just one day ago.

The ground matters too. On slightly soft conditions, Redarna has won 2 from 7 races — a win rate of 29%, nearly double the career average. When you put wet ground and Ayr together, you are looking at something close to ideal conditions for this horse. The standout moment of the career came at Thirsk on 30 April 2022, when Redarna won a Class 2 race — one of the top races in Britain — which tells you this is not a horse who has merely pottered around at the lower levels. There is genuine quality here.

Recent form shows a sixth, a couple of twelfths, a fourth, a win, and an eighth — form that bobs around without a clear upward trend, which is perhaps what you would expect from a 12-year-old who has been doing this a long time. But that win, at Ayr on 18 September 2025, is only 8 months ago. At an age when most horses have long since retired, Redarna is still getting to the winner's enclosure at a track it clearly loves. Paul Mulrennan is the most regular partner, though their record together — 1 win from 7 rides — suggests the combination has not always clicked. Still, for a horse this age, still racing, still winning, still turning up: Redarna deserves a round of applause.