They Want Me

The overall record — 2 wins and 4 places from 7 races — tells a story of a horse that rarely runs badly. That's a 29% win rate, meaning it wins roughly 1 in every 3 races it enters, which is genuinely solid. But it's the recent form that makes this profile worth writing. The last six runs read 1-5-5-3-1-2, which means two wins sandwiched around a few mid-pack efforts. Horses that finish second or third consistently are often described as "nearly horses" — animals that try hard but can't quite get there. They Want Me doesn't fit that mould neatly. It loses, yes, but then it wins again, suggesting a horse that performs when conditions are right rather than one that's permanently flattered.

The two wins are separated by months, which adds intrigue. The first came at Kelso on 29 December 2025 — a track up in the Scottish Borders, far from the glamour of the big southern venues, but a proper test of a horse. The second arrived this week, at Bangor-on-Dee on 18 April 2026, just one day ago. Back-to-back wins aren't on the card here, but a horse that wins and then wins again within a season is clearly in decent form.

Jockey Theo Gillard has been in the saddle for five of those seven races and has won 1 of them together — a 20% win rate, or roughly 1 in every 5 rides. That's a meaningful partnership rather than a casual arrangement. When the same jockey keeps getting the booking, it usually means the trainer trusts them to understand the horse's quirks. At Class 4 level — the solid, competitive middle tier of British racing — They Want Me has won 1 from 3, a 33% win rate. That's a horse holding its own at a fair level, not being thrown in against easy targets to inflate its numbers.