Asking For Answers (IRE)
Asking For Answers won two of 25 starts over jumps, both in Class 5 handicap chases at 2m5f – 3m on soft and heavy ground. The gelding landed a conditional jockeys event at Ayr in Oct 2020 and followed up at Hexham in Dec 2020. All his racing has been on turf and he recorded one win from 12 starts at Ayr and one from eight at Hexham. Aged 10 at his last run in Mar 2023, he finished off an official rating of 85 at Hexham, 20lb below his highest ever mark.
- 2–25Wins / Runs
- 8%Strike rate
- 5 (20%)Placed
- −17.75£1 level staken=25 at SP
- 0.87Fair A/E n=25 · 0.74 incl. margin
- 105Highest OR
- 32dBetween runs (median)longest 266 d
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 87
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 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 6 | 127A | 80 | — |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 85C | 75 | — |
| Heavy | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 8 | 103A | 74 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 2 | 127A | 106 | — |
Of 25 runs looked at, 15 have no figure: did not complete (7) · obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (7) · not enough races on the card to set the day (under 4) (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 10 figures from 25 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 3,218 runs since Sep 2014 (283 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 73 | 7 | 9.6% | −1 | — |
| Good | 1,070 | 137 | 12.8% | +2.2 | — |
| Good to Soft | 625 | 60 | 9.6% | −1 | 0 from 4 |
| Soft | 947 | 87 | 9.2% | −1.4 | 1 from 13 |
| Heavy | 427 | 44 | 10.3% | −0.3 | 1 from 8 |
| 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 | 713 | 65 | 9.1% | −1.5 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 1,055 | 112 | 10.6% | 0 | 0 from 6 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 1,024 | 116 | 11.3% | +0.7 | 2 from 17 |
| Over 3m | 226 | 25 | 11.1% | +0.5 | 0 from 2 |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Sep 2014 · as at 4 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
1 sibling in the archive, 1 winner — best of them Johngus (IRE) (2 wins).
The wins came over 2m.
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johngus (IRE) | 38 | 2 | 2m | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 13 | 1 | 8% | −9.75 |
| Heavy | 8 | 1 | 13% | −4.00 |
| Good to Soft | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 5 | 16 | 2 | 13% | −8.75 |
| Class 4 | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
| Class 3 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayr | 12 | 1 | 8% | −8.75 |
| Hexham | 8 | 1 | 13% | −4.00 |
| Carlisle | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Bangor-on-Dee | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Kelso | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Newcastle | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 17 | 2 | 12% | −9.75 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Over 3m | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Quinlan | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Danny McMenamin | 5 | 2 | 40% | +2.25 |
| Ryan Day | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Peter Kavanagh | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Craig Nichol | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Henry Brooke | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Conor O'Farrell | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Danny Cook | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | 12 | 2 | 17% | −4.75 |
| Visor | 11 | 0 | 0% | −11.00 |
| Cheekpieces | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| 2022 | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 | 50% | +3.25 |
| 2019 | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase | 19 | 2 | 11% | −11.75 |
| Hurdle | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
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
Quick answers
- How many races has Asking For Answers won?
- Asking For Answers (IRE) won 2 of 25 archived starts between 2018 and 2023, a strike rate of 8%. Placed 5 times in total (20% of starts).
- Who trained Asking For Answers?
- Asking For Answers (IRE) was trained by Martin Todhunter on the most recent run on record, at Hexham on 16 March 2023.
- Who is Asking For Answers's sire?
- Asking For Answers (IRE) is by Ask (GB) out of Equation (IRE), whose sire is Lahib.
- What going does Asking For Answers prefer?
- Asking For Answers (IRE) has the best record on heavy going: 1 win from 8 starts (12.5%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Asking For Answers's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 85, from the run on 16 March 2023. The highest on record is 105.
- What is Asking For Answers's sire's record?
- Ask (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 10.6% of 3,218 runs since Sep 2014 (283 horses), Flat and jumps together.
- Who are Asking For Answers's siblings?
- Out of Equation (IRE), Asking For Answers (IRE) has 1 other produce in our archive, 1 of them a winner. Most wins: Johngus (IRE) (2). The wins came over 2m. As at Nov 2026.