The Flying Poet

Sean Bowen has partnered the horse twice and won on both occasions, a 100% record that hints at a real understanding between jockey and horse. Bowen rides for trainer Olly Murphy's Wilmcote yard in Warwickshire, a stable that has sent out 146 winners this season—evidence of a strong operation with plenty of firepower. The Flying Poet sits in that middle tier of class, typically racing at Class 5 level, where it has won once from five attempts. Those numbers suggest the horse is reliable without being exceptional in the wider racing world, but the Perth form tells a different story entirely.

Over its last six races, The Flying Poet has been genuinely competitive. It has won three times and never finished worse than second, a run that includes a pair of placed efforts alongside those three victories. With three wins from 12 career races overall, the horse sits at a 25% win rate—roughly one winner every four times it goes to the track. For a horse still actively racing at seven years old, that is a respectable level of consistency. The real question now is whether it can replicate that Perth magic elsewhere, or whether it will continue to save its best performances for the one track where everything seems to click into place.