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a war eagle
Name: A War Eagle
Trainer: Michael & David Easterby
Sire: Make Believe
Dam: Rohesia
Dam's Sire: High Chaparral
Purchase Date: 28/10/25
Sale: Tattersalls HIT Sale
Wind Test Passed
DOB: 25/03/2022
saturday horse for 2026!
One bad run made this horse very buyable.
He is a horse who has progressed throughout the year his first run post gelding saw him beaten by the Phil Makin horse Impartiality who was running off a mark of 70. Impartiality won his previous and next start and finished the season off a mark of 87.
The next horse to beat A War Eagle was Sir Paul Ramsey who was running off a mark of 73 at Hamilton on 12th July 2025. Fast forward to the end of the season and Sir Paul Ramsey finished 3rd at York off a mark of 87 and achieved a career high mark of 91, 18lbs higher than that day at Hamilton.
Maybe Not trained by Ralph Beckett was the only other horse to beat A War Eagle excluding the Beverley race in September. Maybe Not was running that day off a mark of 75 and then went on to finish 2nd at York's Ebor meeting off 81, win off 83 at Southwell and finish the season off a mark of 86.
The Beverley race was a disaster from start to finish and saw A War Eagle stuck five wide around the bend and with no chance of running to form, given the extra distance he covered and his jockey decided that he wasn't going to feature and made the right call to pull him up having not showed his usual spark on ground that was far softer than ideal.
We know better than anyone (been the leading owner at Beverley) that he faced a mammoth task from his track position which was multiplied once he swung into the straight and found himself in no mans land.