Tiberio Force

Those two wins tell a decent story on their own. The first came at Nottingham back in August 2022, and the second arrived at Ripon in August 2025 — three years apart, which says something about how hard these wins are to come by at this level. Class 6 is the lowest tier of British racing, the everyday bread-and-butter end of the sport, and even there Tiberio Force has managed just 2 wins from 36 races at that level. That's not a horse lighting up the track, but 12 places from 42 races means he's been competitive far more often than his win record suggests — he finishes in the frame, just rarely first.

His preferred trip is a mile and one to a mile and two furlongs — a middle-distance grind rather than a sprint — and over those distances he's won 1 from 12, which at 8% is actually slightly better than his overall record. Jockey Lewis Edmunds has ridden him seven times and landed that 1 win together, a partnership that wins roughly 1 in every 7 times they team up. That's not a stunning figure, but in context it's better than the horse's career average, which suggests Edmunds brings something out of him.

Trained by Simon Whitaker out of Scarcroft in West Yorkshire, Tiberio Force is part of a yard that has sent out three winners this season — a modest but active operation. His recent form makes tough reading: finishing sixth, sixth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and second across his last six runs. That second place, sitting there among the sixes and worse, is the flicker of life that keeps everyone interested. He raced just yesterday, which means he's very much in the thick of things right now. Whether another win is coming is anyone's guess, but after 42 races, the answer is probably: don't rule it out entirely.