Spanish Temptress

She got off the mark for the first time at Killarney in July 2025, and then backed it up with another win at Roscommon in October. Back-to-back wins mid-season suggested a horse coming into her own, and the recent form figures — those two consecutive victories buried in her last six runs — are the kind of sequence that gets people paying attention. The flip side is that she has since drifted back, finishing 16th and then 6th in her two runs after Roscommon, before placing third and then second most recently. The last two outings show a horse that is back in the mix without quite getting her head in front again, which is the kind of form that leaves the yard — sorry, that leaves the yard — frustrated but optimistic.

Richard John O'Brien trains her out of Ballingarry in County Limerick, a yard that has sent out 5 winners already this season and clearly knows how to place its horses to best effect. Spanish Temptress raced just one day ago, so she is bang in the middle of a busy campaign. She has placed — meaning finished second or third — 6 times from her 14 races, which is the mark of a consistent horse rather than a flash-in-the-pan. She nearly wins often enough to keep everyone interested, but not quite often enough to make it look easy. Keep her on wet ground, and that calculus changes considerably.