disclosure

The four-year-old Advertise filly Disclosure is an exciting addition to the team ahead of the 2025 flat season. She has demonstrated plenty of promise in her 11-race career to date, and we think she is lurking on a very appealing handicap mark.

Bred by the UK arm of Wilgerbosdrift stud farm, a prestigious operation in South Africa, Disclosure is a half-sister to the multiple Hong Kong 1m1f winner Beauty Angel and the British 1m6f winner Marmara Sea. 

They are out of the placed Desert Style mare Handana, who is in turn a half-sister to the Gr.3 (then) Concorde Stakes winner Hamairi, the Listed Testimonial Stakes winner Hanabad, plus the dam of the Gr.1-winning mare Seal Of Approval. The latter is a half-sister to the French Listed winner Gale Force, who has gone on to produce the Gr.1 Irish Derby and Gr.1 St Leger winner and sire Hurricane Lane and last year’s Gr.2 Doncaster Cup winner and Gr.1 Ascot Gold Cup third Sweet William. There is no doubting that this is a top-drawer family.

Originally trained by George Boughey, Disclosure made her debut in a 6f novice at Newcastle in November 2023. An extremely encouraging fourth on that occasion, she went on to finish second over the same trip at Wolverhampton shortly afterwards, both performances coming in races that have produced multiple subsequent winners.

She returned to action in the May of her three-year-old campaign at Catterick, where she finished a close-up fourth in a 7f novice contest. The handicapper allotted her an opening mark of 72, and it appeared to be only a matter of time before she would open her account.

However, Disclosure was on the sidelines for nearly five months after her Catterick run and has not won in eight subsequent starts on the all-weather. There have been plenty of positive efforts, notably a third over 1m at Newcastle in December and a third tackling 1m1½f at Wolverhampton in January, and she has rarely underperformed, but the lack of a win has seen her gradually slide in the weights.

She now finds herself rated 56, which opens up plenty of opportunities in low-grade handicaps, as does her versatility. She has been competitive at a variety of different distances, even trying 1m4f at Wolverhampton in January. The influence of her sire Advertise, a sprinter whose progeny tend to stay well, means that there is the potential to continue exploring that option.

Disclosure still has low mileage and is undeniably well-handicapped, so we think that there are going to be plenty of races to be won with her in the months ahead.