Roger Henry

His two wins tell an interesting story about where he is most at home. The first came at Chelmsford in April 2024, and the second at Beverley in July 2024 — and that Beverley win is now 21 months ago, which means he has gone six races without getting back to the winner's enclosure. His best results tend to come over distances of a mile to a mile and a quarter, where he has won 1 from 4 races (25%), a noticeably better record than his overall average. That suggests he has a preferred trip, and getting the conditions right over that distance gives him a genuine chance.

He tends to compete at the lower end of the racing ladder — Class 6, which is the entry level of British racing — and that is where his record looks most encouraging. At that level, he has won 2 from 5 races, which is 40%, or roughly 2 in every 5. In other words, when Roger Henry is in the right race at the right level, he is far from easy to beat.

He is trained by Lizzie Quinlan, based at Bolton Mill in Cumbria, a yard that has sent out four winners already this season. Quinlan is clearly capable of getting horses ready to perform, and with Roger Henry having raced as recently as yesterday and still sitting on a run of recent form that reads 2-3-4-3-9-5 going back through his last six outings, the signs are that the team are keeping him busy and looking for the right opportunity. The places are there — a second and two thirds in that recent stretch — so the form is not cold, just waiting for the one that clicks.