David Menuisier

The wider numbers this season tell a more complicated story. Menuisier has sent out 238 runners and won with 20 of them — roughly 1 in every 12 — an 8% win rate that represents a noticeable dip from last year's 16%, when he was winning closer to 1 in every 6. That kind of drop will raise eyebrows, but context matters: a trainer winning six top-level races in four years is clearly not short of ability, and a single purple patch can shift the annual figures considerably. Eighty-seven career winners in four seasons is a solid foundation, not a struggling yard trying to find its feet.

One pattern worth watching is how the team performs on fast, dry ground. From 29 races in those conditions, Menuisier's runners have won 4 times — a 14% win rate, or roughly 1 in 7 — meaningfully better than his overall figures suggest. Some trainers have horses that simply travel better when the ground is quick, and that edge can be a useful thing to know when summer comes around.

His most reliable jockey partnership at the moment is with Rossa Ryan, who has ridden 23 times for the yard and won on 4 of those occasions — a 17% win rate, or nearly 1 in every 6 rides. That's comfortably above Menuisier's overall season average, which suggests Ryan gets on particularly well with the horses he's given. In racing, a trainer and jockey who understand each other can extract results that the bare numbers don't always predict. With 87 winners already banked and a habit of showing up on the biggest days, Menuisier looks like a trainer still very much in the early chapters of something interesting.