🔹 About Self Charging

  • Name: Self Charging

  • DOB: 18/04/22 b f

  • Sire: Make Believe, Dam: Hymnist, Dam's Sire: Teofilo

  • Trainer: Jack Jones (Newmarket)

  • Purchased for: 1,000gns (privately, post-sale)

  • Current Runs: 2 starts – yet to be rated

  • Expected first run: Aug 25

  • Expected Trip: 1m 2f

We’ve taken our time to assess her properly – and now we’re confident she’s sound, working well, and ready to go forward.

🔍 Why No One Bought Her – And Why That’s a Mistake

At big sales like Tattersalls July, with over 900 horses catalogued, foreign buyers and agents often have to cut horses off their shortlists without watching every replay. When a filly like Self Charging turns up with form figures like 7/8 and 9/17, it's easy to see why she might get overlooked.

But that surface read doesn’t tell the full story. In fact, her debut run tells you everything you need to know:

🧩 Form Behind the Numbers

  • Ran in a competitive sales race on debut and achieved an RPR of 65

  • Finished 7th of 28 behind horses now rated:

    • 1st: 101

    • 2nd: 99

    • 3rd: 83

    • 4th: 95

    • 5th: 84

    • 8th: 82

Just 4 days later, she ran again over a trip shorter than ideal, posting an RPR of 60, and was given a quiet ride by Ross Coakley, who later confirmed she felt like she had plenty of ability, but wasn’t ready to back up so quickly.

🔹 The Plan

We now know she’s sound, she’s training well, and she’s shown real promise in a hot piece of form. Here’s the strategy:

  • Run her for a 3rd time soon to obtain a handicap mark

  • Step her back up in trip

  • Target soft ground (suiting her pedigree)

  • Try to land a few races on the bounce off a low mark before year’s end

  • If all goes to plan, we believe she has the potential to be rated 80+ in time

All of this for just 1,000gns. Sometimes the market misses one – and we think this might just be one of those rare opportunities.

✅ Why Get Involved?

  • Proper value buy with upside

  • By Make Believe, a proven source of winners

  • Hot form on debut in a stacked sales race

  • Sound, vetted and working well with a respected Newmarket trainer

  • A patient project with a clear path to winning races this autumn

  • Potential black-type or resale upside if she progresses to 80+