Stacey Racey

The horse's best moment came at Kempton Park on 16 September 2024, but that was nearly two years ago. Since then, Stacey Racey has been chasing that feeling without finding it again. Over the last six races, the pattern has been frustratingly close: three third-place finishes, a fourth, and two runs outside the placings. It is the kind of form that keeps a horse in races—good enough to be competitive, not good enough to win them. That most recent run, just yesterday, brought an unplaced finish, though the horse remains active and is still racing.

Josephine Gordon has been Stacey Racey's primary pilot, riding in 19 of the horse's races and winning twice together—an 11% win rate that actually edges above the horse's overall record. That suggests Gordon and horse work reasonably well as a partnership, even if neither has found the formula for sustained success.

Trainer Keiran Burke's yard at Whitcombe in Dorset has sent out 12 winners this season, so the operation is functional, if modest. Where Stacey Racey performs best is over shorter distances, particularly at 5 furlongs to 6½ furlongs, where the horse has won once from four attempts—a 25% win rate that represents genuine form at that trip. Most of the horse's racing comes at Class 6 level, the lowest standard, where it has one win from 13 races. For a horse with only two career victories to its name, Stacey Racey remains a genuine racing animal, just not a particularly distinguished one.