Starsong

That last Brighton win came on 29 September 2025, which is only seven months ago, and it stands as the most recent victory on the record. Since then, six races have come and gone without a winner's enclosure visit — recent form reads 9-9-2-4-3 working back from the latest run, so there have been a couple of placed efforts mixed in, but no win. The horse raced just one day ago, so this is a campaign very much in motion.

Michael Appleby trains Starsong out of Oakham in Rutland, and his yard has been in fine form this season — 79 winners sent out is a serious number and suggests a stable operating with real confidence right now. The most regular jockey partnership is with Frederick Larson, who has ridden Starsong ten times and won once together, a win rate of 1 in 10. That is not a partnership setting the world alight, but in racing, continuity and track knowledge matter, and Larson clearly knows this horse well by now.

The one area where the record looks genuinely puzzling is at Class 5, which is the level Starsong most often competes at — and the record there reads zero wins from 24 races. That is a striking blank given the horse has won six times in its career; those wins have evidently come elsewhere. It points to a horse that perhaps finds its best form when conditions or competition align in a specific way, rather than one that grinds out results at a consistent level week after week. At Brighton, though, the record speaks for itself — 2 wins from 6 races translates to winning 1 in every 3 visits to that track, which for a horse with this overall profile is genuinely remarkable. If Starsong is heading back to Brighton, that is worth knowing.