Right And Exact

Trained by Declan Carroll out of Malton in North Yorkshire, Right And Exact has the backing of a yard in fine form — 22 winners already this season is a solid haul, suggesting Carroll and his team know what they are doing when they point a horse at a race. The first win came at Catterick Bridge in June 2025, and the most recent landed at Thirsk just this week, on 16 May 2026, so this is a horse very much in the middle of its story right now.

Look at the recent form figures — 1-8-2-2-1 — and what you see is a horse that has bookended a difficult middle spell with victories. That eighth-place finish sits awkwardly in an otherwise tidy record, but horses have bad days, and Right And Exact has responded by winning its last race. The two placed efforts either side of that blip also matter: this is a horse that competes, rather than one that only shows up when everything is perfect.

What does suit it is normal ground — neither waterlogged nor baked hard, just a standard racing surface. On those conditions it has won 2 of 3 races, a 67% record that is genuinely eye-catching. That kind of preference tells you something useful: when the ground comes up right and Right And Exact lines up, it tends to deliver. It races mostly at Class 5 level, which is the bread-and-butter tier of British racing, and has won 1 of 3 at that level — a reasonable return, with room to build on it. Whether Carroll decides to test it at a higher level remains to be seen, but the raw numbers suggest there may be more to come.