Ask The Bishop (IRE)
Ask The Bishop is a gelding by Ask out of the Beneficial mare Not For Fifty. He ran five times on turf between Mar 2022 and Mar 2023 without winning or placing. All five starts came over distances from 2m1f to beyond 3m on good, soft or heavy ground at four different tracks. His last run, at Thurles in Mar 2023, was in a maiden hunters chase.
- 0–5Wins / Runs
- 0%Strike rate
- 0 (0%)Placed
- −5.00£1 level staken=5 at SP
- 0.00Fair A/E n=5 · 0.00 incl. margin
- 89dAvg between runs
A/E compares actual wins with what starting prices implied. "Fair" strips the bookmaker margin from the expectation, so favourites and longshots are judged on the same footing — figures near 1.00 mean the market priced this horse about right.
KTB Speed and Rating
Best recent Speed 60
How fast the horse ran, as points against the day-corrected standard time for its course and distance: 100 is the median GB Class 4 handicap winner on that code; one point is 0.1% of the standard time. A, B or C is how much the day's card could tell us, not how good the run was. What this means →
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 27 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 2 | 73C | 66.5 | — |
| Soft | 1 | — | — | — |
| Heavy | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 27 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 2 | 119C | 95 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 2 | 73C | 66.5 | — |
Of 5 runs looked at, 1 has no figure: did not complete (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 4 figures from 5 runs · as at 3 Oct 2026 · a record, not a forecast
Both figures are KTB's own, computed from the archive; no vendor rating enters either. Every run's figure is on its form line below with its grade. Grades measure how much the archive could see, never the merit of the run.
Run style is derived from in-running commentary, which our data provider does not supply for this horse's races.
Pedigree intelligence
Progeny in our archive have won 10.6% of 3,215 runs since Jan 2008 (283 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 72 | 7 | 9.7% | −0.9 | — |
| Good | 1,068 | 137 | 12.8% | +2.2 | 0 from 2 |
| Good to Soft | 625 | 60 | 9.6% | −1 | — |
| Soft | 947 | 87 | 9.2% | −1.4 | 0 from 2 |
| Heavy | 427 | 44 | 10.3% | −0.3 | 0 from 1 |
| Standard (AW) | 76 | 5 | 6.6% | −4 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 14 | 1 | 7.1% | −3.5 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 39 | 2 | 5.1% | −5.5 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 147 | 19 | 12.9% | +2.3 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 712 | 65 | 9.1% | −1.5 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 1,054 | 112 | 10.6% | 0 | 0 from 2 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 1,023 | 116 | 11.3% | +0.7 | 0 from 2 |
| Over 3m | 226 | 25 | 11.1% | +0.5 | 0 from 1 |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 27 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
No other produce in our archive. It holds racing in Great Britain, Ireland and France from 2005, so siblings racing elsewhere won’t appear here.
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Good | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Heavy | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cork | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Thurles | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Tramore | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Killarney | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Over 3m | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Holden | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Mr J C Barry | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| J J Slevin | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Tongue tie | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Cheekpieces | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurdle | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Chase | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
Splits include every sample, however small — muted rows are under 3 runs. A one-from-one record is a fact, not a trend: read the Runs column before the strike rate.
Form
| Date | Course | Race | Pos | Btn | Wgt | Spd | KTB | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 · 1 run | |||||||||
| 13 Mar 23+282d | Thurles | Racing Again March 18th Maiden Hunters Chase | PU/10 | — | 11-11 | — | — | Mr J C Barry | 50/1 |
| 2022 · 4 runs | |||||||||
| 04 Jun 22+19d | Tramore | Copper Coast Maiden Hurdle | 9/13 | 19 | 11-12 | 71C | 83C | J J Slevin | 40/1 |
| 16 May 22+28d | Killarney | Broderick Plumbing Maiden Hurdle | 14/16 | 37 | 10-11 | 73C | 86C | Daniel Holden | 250/1 |
| 18 Apr 22+25d | Cork | Coolagown Stud Maiden Hurdle | 16/18 | 11 | 11-5 | 119C | 89C | Daniel Holden | 100/1 |
| 24 Mar 22 | Cork | corkracecourse.ie Maiden Hurdle | 8/11 | 1½ | 11-5 | 60A | 85A | Daniel Holden | 16/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Ask The Bishop won?
- Ask The Bishop (IRE) has yet to win, from 5 archived starts between 2022 and 2023.
- Who trained Ask The Bishop?
- Ask The Bishop (IRE) was trained by Michael Butler on the most recent run on record, at Thurles on 13 March 2023.
- Who is Ask The Bishop's sire?
- Ask The Bishop (IRE) is by Ask (GB) out of Not For Fifty (IRE), whose sire is Beneficial.
- What is Ask The Bishop's sire's record?
- Ask (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 10.6% of 3,215 runs since Jan 2008 (283 horses), Flat and jumps together.