Sherminator

His career began at Newbury in January 2025, and from the moment he arrived he impressed people who know what they are looking at. His jumping was described as natural and scopey — not something you coach into a horse, but something they either have or they don't. He has since added wins at Exeter, with his most recent coming in March 2026. He raced just yesterday, so this is a horse firmly in the thick of his season.

At Class 4 level — a solid, competitive tier of racing — Sherminator has been almost unstoppable, winning 3 of his 4 races at that grade, a 75% win rate. The question now is what happens when his trainer Harry Fry pushes him up against stiffer competition. Fry runs a busy and productive yard in Corscombe, Dorset, having sent out 25 winners already this season, so he is well placed to know when a horse is ready to step up.

His regular jockey Bryan Carver has been along for most of the journey, riding him in 5 races and winning 3 of them — a 60% win rate together, which suggests a genuine partnership rather than a lucky streak. When a jockey and horse click like that, trainers tend to keep the combination together for good reason.

The most telling thing about Sherminator is not the wins themselves, but the shape of the career so far: improving with each run, effective over a distance, a natural jumper with what his yard clearly believes is a higher ceiling than he has yet reached. Horses that win half their races at this stage of their development do not come along every week. He is one to follow.