Yy Spirit

That single win came at Newcastle on 9 December 2025, and it arrived after what the recent form suggests was a rough patch — finishing tenth, then eleventh, before finally breaking through. The turnaround from those lowly finishes to a winning performance is the kind of thing that keeps trainers patient and owners hopeful. Newcastle is an all-weather track that runs year-round regardless of the British winter, so winning there in December is no small thing — the competition doesn't thin out just because it's cold.

Yy Spirit is trained by Susan Corbett, who operates out of a small yard in Otterburn, Northumberland. Eleven winners from a yard based in that corner of the country is a solid return — this isn't a sprawling operation with horses queuing up for big races, so every winner counts and every runner is carefully placed. The fact that Corbett has sent this horse out in Class 5 races — the most accessible level of British racing — suggests a clear-eyed approach: find the right level, find the right race, and give the horse its best chance.

At distances between five and six-and-a-half furlongs, Yy Spirit has won 1 from 4 races, a 25% win rate that marks it out as a genuine contender when conditions suit. Short, sharp races reward natural speed, and that is clearly where this horse is most comfortable. At Class 5, the record reads 1 win from 3 races — winning 1 in every 3 at that level is genuinely respectable and suggests it belongs there rather than merely passing through on the way somewhere else.

Having raced just yesterday, Yy Spirit is very much a horse in the middle of its story at three years old, with a win already on the board and the form lines suggesting there could be more to come over the right distance and at the right level.