Spinning Web

The most striking fact is what happens when Spinning Web turns up at Thurles, a tight, unforgiving track in County Tipperary. Two wins from just 3 races there is the kind of record that makes trainers keep coming back. That's winning 2 out of every 3 visits, at a track where most horses never win at all. The most recent of those came as recently as March 2025, so this is not some distant memory — Spinning Web knows that place, and that place seems to suit Spinning Web.

Conditions matter too. On wet or soft ground, the record jumps to 2 wins from 8 races, a 25% win rate — wins 1 in every 4 races in those conditions. That's a meaningful pattern. When the rain has been down and the ground is giving, Spinning Web becomes a different prospect.

The horse is trained by Ms Margaret Mullins at her yard in Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny, which has sent out 6 winners already this season. Danny Mullins, who rides Spinning Web most often, has been aboard for 16 of the 35 races together, winning just 1 of them — a 6% win rate that suggests the partnership hasn't quite clicked the way the team might hope. That one win together dates back to Tipperary in July 2023, where the career started in earnest.

The recent form reads as six races without a win, and the last completed finish in those six was a third place — the others are currently listed without result, likely runs where the outcome is still being processed given that Spinning Web raced just yesterday. Still active and still running, this is a horse that finds its way into the frame often enough (13 places from 35 races) to remain useful, even if the wins have become harder to find. If Thurles comes up soft this autumn, it would be a brave person who wrote Spinning Web off entirely.