Paisley Park is a bay horse with a narrow white stripe bred by Michael Conaghan at Evergreen Stud in County Kildare.
[4] He entered the ownership of Andrew Gemmell and was sent into training with Emma Lavelle at the Bonita Stable at Ogbourne Maizey in Wiltshire.
[10] In the 2017/18 National Hunt season Paisley Park was campaigned in Novice Hurdle races and was ridden by Nick Scholfield in all four of his starts.
On his return to the track after an eleven month absence the gelding contested a minor event over two and a half miles at Hereford Racecourse on 16 December and he recorded his first success as he jumped into the lead at the final hurdle and won by seven lengths from the 1/4 favourite Vision Des Flos.
In March he was stepped up in class and distance for the Grade 1 Spa Novices' Hurdle over three miles at Cheltenham Racecourse in which he started a 33/1 outsider and came home last of the thirteen finishers behind Kilbricken Storm after losing a shoe.
The gelding began his campaign in a handicap at Aintree Racecourse on 28 October and won by two and a half lengths from Lygon Rock after taking the lead on the extended run-in.
Carrying 166 pounds he was restrained by Coleman in the early stages before producing a strong late run to take the lead near the finish and won by half a length from Shades Of Midnight.
After racing towards the rear of the field he made steady progress in the last half mile, overtook West Approach on the run-in and won by two lengths.
After racing in mid-division he moved up to take the lead approaching the final obstacle and drew away to win by twelve lengths in "impressive" style.
[25] On his first appearance of the 2020/21 National Hunt season Paisley Park contested the Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury but was unable to repeat his 2019 success as he was beaten one and a half lengths into second place by the six-year-old Thyme Hill to whom he was conceding three pounds in weight.
On 19 December Paisley Park faced a rematch with Thyme Hill in the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot, this time at level weights.
After being restrained at the rear of the field he made steady progress from the fourth last and stayed on strongly to catch Thyme Hill in the final strides and won by a neck.
It's a long way up the run-in and his stamina came into play at the end, which goes to show how genuine and tough he is that he can get pushed out into an unpromising position and still win.
He raced towards the rear of the field for most of the way before producing his customary strong finish but never looked likely to win and came home third behind the front-running Flooring Porter.