Touch The Moon

The five-year-old has built a career record of 2 wins and 8 places from 13 races, meaning roughly 1 in every 6 races ends in a winner's enclosure visit, with money coming back from the track far more often than that. It is not a record that screams superstar, but it tells you something important: this is a horse that competes, that does not simply fill a field, and that has clearly found a level it belongs at. At the Class 4 level where it spends most of its time — solid, competitive racing without quite reaching the top tier — it has won 1 from 6, or about 1 in every 6 outings, which is honest, respectable work.

What is genuinely interesting right now is the recent form. Reading the last six races from most recent backwards — 2nd, 1st, 6th, 3rd, 2nd, 8th — you can see a horse that had a rough patch, then quietly clicked back into gear. That win at Punchestown on 2 May 2026 was only two weeks ago, and Touch The Moon was back out racing just yesterday. That kind of quick turnaround tells you the team are happy with how the horse is in itself, and why wouldn't they be? It arrived home in front last time out.

The yard behind the horse belongs to William Durkan, based in Sandyford, County Dublin. With 13 winners already on the board this season, Durkan is clearly in decent form, and sending a horse back out a day after racing is the move of a trainer who knows exactly what he has and is not afraid to keep the momentum going.

Over distances of seven furlongs to a mile, Touch The Moon has won 1 from 3 races — a win rate of 33%, or about 1 in 3 — which is a noticeably better return than over other trips. The first career win came at Carlisle back in September 2023, a long way from Dublin in every sense, and the Punchestown success last month is the latest chapter. For a horse still only five years old, there is time yet to add to that tally.