Zighy

Trained by George Boughey out of Newmarket, Zighy sits in one of the most productive yards in Britain right now. Boughey's team has sent out 105 winners this season alone — a number that reflects a well-organised operation with a strong eye for placing horses in races they can win. Zighy looks like a beneficiary of that approach.

The horse's record on normal ground tells you something important: 2 wins from just 3 races on standard conditions, which is two in every three attempts. That is an exceptional conversion rate and suggests Zighy is at its very best when the track is running fairly and fast. The first career win came at Wolverhampton in November 2025, and most recently Zighy won at Southwell just two weeks ago on 15 April 2026 — so the horse is in form right now, having raced as recently as yesterday.

The recent sequence of 4-1-1-2-2-3 (reading from yesterday backwards) tells its own story. Those two consecutive wins in the middle of that run, sandwiched between placed efforts on either side, show a horse operating consistently at a high level. This is not a horse that flukes a win and disappears — it keeps turning up and finishing in the prizes.

One curious subplot is the partnership with Billy Loughnane, who has ridden Zighy in 5 of its 7 races without a single win together. That is not necessarily a criticism of either horse or jockey — plenty of factors determine who rides on a given day — but it does mean both of Zighy's wins have come with someone else in the saddle. Whether that changes going forward will be worth watching. For now, Zighy is a three-year-old in form, trained by one of Britain's busiest yards, and racing with the kind of consistency that makes it genuinely hard to ignore.