Selection

The two wins tell an interesting story on their own. The first came at Pontefract in June 2024, and the second at Newcastle in October 2025 — over a year apart, which suggests this is not a horse that strings victories together in a purple patch. That Newcastle win now sits seven months in the rear-view mirror, and the last six races have produced nothing better than a pair of second-place finishes, with a fifth, sixth, and seventh mixed in. The recent form reads 5-7-6-2-2-5, so there was a moment around the middle of that run where the horse looked like it might kick on — two seconds in a row is genuinely promising — but it hasn't converted since.

Most of Selection's racing life has been spent at Class 5 level, which is the bread-and-butter tier of British racing. There, the record reads 1 win from 5 races, a 20% win rate, or roughly one in every five — which is actually a decent return at that level and suggests the horse is reasonably well-placed in its grade. The trainer Ivan Furtado, based in Wiseton, South Yorkshire, has had a productive season with 34 winners sent out, so the yard is clearly in good form even if Selection personally is waiting for the planets to align again.

With a race just yesterday, this is clearly an active, busy horse. Whether another win is coming depends on whether those back-to-back seconds earlier in the sequence were a sign of something building, or simply a brief flicker. At 13 races into its career, there's still time to find out.