Spirit Mixer

Now eight years old, Spirit Mixer has built a career record of 7 wins and 12 places from 31 races, a win rate of roughly 23%, or just under 1 in every 4 races. That is a solid, respectable number, but the real story is where and how those wins have come. Six of the seven victories have arrived over longer distances — between a mile and six furlongs and two miles — where Spirit Mixer has won 6 of just 16 races, a staggering 38% win rate. Over those trips, this horse simply does not get beat very often. Most of its racing has come against tough company, Class 2 fields that represent some of the better races below the very top level, and winning three times at that level tells you this is a horse of genuine quality.

The most recent of those Chester wins came on 13 September 2025 — a second successive year winning at the track in September, which is either a remarkable coincidence or something the Andrew Balding team have worked out very deliberately. Balding, based at Kingsclere in Hampshire, is having a superb season, with 202 winners sent out from his yard this year alone. He knows what he has here, and the fact that Spirit Mixer keeps returning to Chester and keeps winning suggests the team understand exactly what brings out the best in this horse.

Jockey Callum Hutchinson has been the most regular partner, riding in 9 of Spirit Mixer's races and winning 3 of them — a win rate of 33%, or 1 in every 3 rides together. That is a strong combination by any standard. Recent form reads 10th, 3rd, 4th, 1st, 7th, 5th, which tells you this is not a horse who wins every week, but one who delivers when conditions are right. With a Chester win just eight months ago and the horse still actively racing, there is every reason to think that trip back to the Roodee is already being pencilled in for September.