Somespring Special
Has enhanced her good strike-rate over fences with back-to-back wins at Newton Abbot (2m5f) and Bangor (3m; again on good); it was harder work last time after a 6lb rise and she now has another 5lb to contend with, though last time was her first go over this far.
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Equipment
From our racecard archive — runs before our coverage window aren't included. Codes: B blinkers · P cheekpieces · V visor · H hood · T tongue tie.
Ownership history
- Yeo Racing PartnershipCurrent
- Mrs K D Yeountil 17 Nov 2022
Newest first. Dates mark when the horse left each owner.
Breeding
- Sire
- Westerner
- Dam
- Natural Spring
- Damsire
- Generous
Trainer history
- CurrentPhilip Hobbs & Johnson White
- 18 Mar 2025Chris Gordon
- 15 Jul 2024Anthony Honeyball
- 7 Nov 2022Max Young
From the connections
“I think we're three from three now. Somespring Special is a pleasure to ride, she's very, very uncomplicated. To be fair to the governor, he rang me after Newton Abbot where she won the last day and said there were two options - today or Uttoxeter tomorrow. I said, 'Let's just try three miles', and on the first circuit I was thinking that was the wrong call. She was very keen, but saw it out well in the end. She's a fantastic jumper in her own way and is in the form of her life. She skips off that better ground - Jockey Ben Jones, speaking on Sky Sports Racing.”
“That was very good. Somespring Special is better on that ground and I was really pleased with how she travelled and went like a two-miler - at Plumpton she found it all very fast. She was economical over her fences too. It was a bit of a chuckaway entry at first but when she won at Plumpton we thought she had to run. I was shocked by her price, I usually have a good idea what they'll go off, but I thought she'd be much bigger - Anthony Honeyball, trainer.”
Career trajectory
Solid lines: OR / RPR / AI. Dashed: TS. Dot = finishing position per run (oldest left → newest right). Missing values lift the pen rather than interpolating across gaps.
Form by going
- Good1/2 · 50%
Strike rate per going. Bars scale against the highest rate in the list — so a short bar means weaker form on that going, not zero.
Form by course
- Bangor-on-Dee1/1 · 100%
- Perth0/1 · 0%
Past runs (tracked here)
| Date | Race | Type | Pos | SP | AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jun 2026 | Perth 16:27 Perth Gold Cup Handicap Chase (GBB Race) | Chase Class 2 | 7 | 7/2 | 83.0 |
| 23 May 2026 | Bangor-on-Dee 16:10 Bangor-On-Dee Handicap Chase (GBB Race) | Chase Class 2 | 1 | 7/4F | 70.1 |
Only runs Racing Alpha has synced are shown. Lifetime form is in the Racing Post form section above.
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