Horse profile
Aspire Tower (IRE)
by Born To Sea (IRE) out of Red Planet (GB) (Pivotal)
32 runs · 17 courses · from Aug 2018
As at 21 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 1 Jul 2025 — 476 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run Jul 2025 · 3rd of 4
7 wins · 5 courses
New yard
Last raced off OR 143
KTB Profile
Aspire Tower won seven of 32 starts including the Grade 2 WKD Hurdle at Down Royal in Oct 2020 and two more wins in our archive at that level. Five of those wins came over 1m5f – 2m, five on soft ground. He won twice at Wexford and twice at Punchestown. His last run, at Stratford in Jul 2025, was his first for Jennie Candlish and saw him finish third of four off an official rating of 143.
Based on 32 archived runs · run-style from 8 commented runs · updated 21 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance
Typically led
OR ↓ 17lb off peak
- 7–32Wins / Runs
- 21.9%Strike rate
- 15 (46.9%)Placed
- −9.43£1 level staken=32 at SP
- 1.13Fair A/E n=32 · 0.97 incl. margin
- 160Highest OR
- 81dAvg 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.
Official rating143↓ 17lb off peak
143
79–160
KTB Speed and Rating
KTB Speed
Best recent Speed 126
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 →
Jumps
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 12 | 138B | 112 | — |
| Good | 3 | 116C | 107 | — |
| Heavy | 2 | 135A | 131 | — |
| Good to Firm | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 11 | 138B | 115 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 6 | 135A | 105 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 1 | — | — | — |
Flat
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 4 | 108A | 87.5 | — |
| Good | 3 | 108B | 90 | — |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 125A | 113.5 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 1 | — | — | — |
| Good to Firm | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 6 | 108B | 96 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 4 | 125A | 87.5 | — |
| 6f – 7f | 1 | — | — | — |
Of 32 runs looked at, 3 have no figure: did not complete (2) · obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 29 figures from 32 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 from 8 analysed runs
- Led 5 (63%) · 2 wins
- Prominent 3 (38%) · 1 win
Pedigree intelligence
Sire
Progeny in our archive have won 9.1% of 4,273 runs since Jan 2008 (310 horses).
Strongest on soft going: 12.2% from 962. Weakest on standard (aw) going: 4.4% from 864. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 5.8% from 723.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 22 | 2 | 9.1% | 0 | — |
| Good to Firm | 378 | 34 | 9% | −0.1 | 0 from 2 |
| Good | 1,109 | 108 | 9.7% | +0.6 | 2 from 6 |
| Good to Soft | 571 | 59 | 10.3% | +1.2 | 0 from 2 |
| Soft | 962 | 117 | 12.2% | +3.1 | 5 from 19 |
| Heavy | 365 | 31 | 8.5% | −0.6 | 0 from 2 |
| Standard (AW) | 864 | 38 | 4.4% | −4.7 | 0 from 1 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 190 | 13 | 6.8% | −2.3 | — |
| 6f – 7f | 723 | 42 | 5.8% | −3.3 | 0 from 1 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 631 | 43 | 6.8% | −2.3 | 1 from 4 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 883 | 90 | 10.2% | +1.1 | 0 from 6 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 990 | 110 | 11.1% | +2 | 5 from 13 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 652 | 74 | 11.3% | +2.2 | 1 from 7 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 166 | 14 | 8.4% | −0.7 | 0 from 1 |
| Over 3m | 38 | 3 | 7.9% | −1.2 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 20 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
Dam
Red Planet (GB) (Pivotal)
4 siblings in the archive, 3 winners — best of them Planetaria (IRE) (3 wins).
The wins came over 7f–1m7½f; the highest grade won is Class 2 (Krypton Gold (IRE)).
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planetaria (IRE) | 35 | 3 | 1m–1m½f | Class 5 |
| Miss Avonbridge (IRE) | 8 | 2 | 7f | Class 5 |
| Krypton Gold (IRE) | 22 | 1 | 1m7½f | Class 2 |
| Red Star Dancer (IRE) | 17 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 19 | 5 | 26% | −1.62 |
| Good | 6 | 2 | 33% | −0.81 |
| Good to Firm | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Heavy | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Standard (AW) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 3 | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Class 1 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Class 5 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Class 4 | 2 | 1 | 50% | +0.25 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leopardstown | 6 | 1 | 17% | −3.12 |
| Punchestown | 5 | 2 | 40% | +2.00 |
| Thurles | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Wexford | 2 | 2 | 100% | +4.44 |
| Cheltenham | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Goodwood | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Newmarket | 2 | 1 | 50% | +0.25 |
| Stratford | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Wincanton | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Down Royal | 1 | 1 | 100% | +3.00 |
| Ascot | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Hamilton | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Musselburgh | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Chelmsford City (AW) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Windsor | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ffos Las | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Newbury | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 13 | 5 | 38% | +3.57 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 7 | 1 | 14% | −3.25 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 4 | 1 | 25% | −1.75 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| 6f – 7f | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachael Blackmore | 12 | 3 | 25% | −1.87 |
| Darragh O'Keeffe | 4 | 2 | 50% | +1.19 |
| Tom Marquand | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Mike O'Connor | 2 | 1 | 50% | +3.00 |
| Robbie Power | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Harry Bentley | 2 | 1 | 50% | +0.25 |
| Brian Hughes | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| C Y Ho | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Shane Gray | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| P J McDonald | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Richard Kingscote | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jim Crowley | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Luke Morris | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | 2 | 33% | +0.44 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 25% | −0.25 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 | 25% | +0.00 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2 | 29% | −0.87 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1 | 17% | −3.75 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurdle | 14 | 4 | 29% | −0.12 |
| Flat | 11 | 1 | 9% | −8.75 |
| Chase | 7 | 2 | 29% | −0.56 |
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 | OR | Spd | KTB | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Jul 25+45d | Stratford | Visit racingtv.com Novices' Limited Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Went straight to front - lost command after two out - pressed then dropped away in finish - held on for third | 3/4 | 8 | 11-10 | 143 | 77C | 140B | Brian Hughes | 9/2 |
| 17 May 25+16d | Wexford | T.C. Cullen Memorial Novice Chase Set the pace almost throughout - unhurried over first and headed for a moment - stumbled at 4th and 6th - opened a four length advantage before a small error 3 out - driven out and finished strongly from 2 out to win | 1/5 | 11-12 | 142 | 86C | 144B | Darragh O'Keeffe | 4/9F | |
| 01 May 25+27d | Punchestown | Frontline Security Handicap Chase (Listed) Settled behind the pace early - 4th 3 out and pushed along into 3rd - dropped to 5th by the last - unable to threaten the front-runners late | 5/23 | 4 | 11-8 | 142 | 91B | 149A | Mike O'Connor | 18/1 |
| 04 Apr 25+33d | Wexford | Visit Wexford Beginners Chase Settled just behind the pace - second at halfway - small error 4 out - pressed the pace before entering straight - pushed along in second approaching 2 out - stayed on to hit front near the finish | 1/8 | 11-12 | 146 | 126A | 150A | Mike O'Connor | 4/1 | |
| 02 Mar 25+28d | Leopardstown | QuinnBet Hurdle Went straight to front but scratchy over 2nd - lost command approaching last and stumbled slightly there - only one gear on the run-in - eased back to finish third | 3/6 | nse | 11-7 | 142 | 109A | 138B | Rachael Blackmore | 11/4 |
| 02 Feb 25+85d | Leopardstown | Timeless Sash Windows Handicap Hurdle (0-150) (Listed) Shared front early - lost place 4th - blundered 5th - fourth but stumbled 2 out then driven with no response | 9/18 | ¾ | 11-12 | 144 | 68B | 137A | Darragh O'Keeffe | 66/1 |
| 09 Nov 24+25d | Wincanton | BetMGM Elite Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race) Sat close behind leader early - hit the rail at the 5th and again 3 out - driven approaching the home turn - dropped from 2nd before the second last - faded rapidly through the finish | 3/3 | 17 | 11-2 | 148 | 107C | 119C | Darragh O'Keeffe | 3/1 |
| 15 Oct 24+225d | Punchestown | William Hill Committed To Top Prices Hurdle Set the pace from the off - scrambled slightly three out then edged away approaching the last - kept finding under pressure to the line | 1/4 | 11-2 | 159 | 116C | 140C | Darragh O'Keeffe | 11/4 | |
| 04 Mar 24+20d | Leopardstown | Irish Stallion Farms EBF Beginners Chase | F/10 | — | 11-12 | 146 | — | — | Rachael Blackmore | 4/7F |
| 13 Feb 24+44d | Thurles | Horse & Jockey Beginners Chase | 2/9 | ½ | 11-12 | — | 127A | 154A | Rachael Blackmore | 5/2 |
| 31 Dec 23+31d | Punchestown | Tote Guarantee Available On Course & Tote.ie Hurdle | 4/7 | 6½ | 11-6 | 159 | 135A | 134A | Rachael Blackmore | 11/1 |
| 30 Nov 23+42d | Thurles | Download The BetVictor App Beginners Chase | 3/10 | 4½ | 11-12 | — | 96B | 132A | Rachael Blackmore | 6/1 |
| 19 Oct 23+902d | Thurles | He'llberemembered Hurdle | 3/5 | 23 | 11-0 | 159 | 135C | 124B | Rachael Blackmore | 10/3 |
| 30 Apr 21+45d | Punchestown | Paddy Power Champion Hurdle (Grade 1) | 8/8 | 19 | 12-0 | 160 | 88C | 118C | Robbie Power | 33/1 |
| 16 Mar 21+77d | Cheltenham | Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy (Grade 1) (GBB Race) | 4/10 | 1½ | 11-10 | 160 | 117A | 143A | Robbie Power | 33/1 |
| 29 Dec 20+60d | Leopardstown | Matheson Hurdle (Grade 1) | 2/7 | 2 | 11-9 | 155 | 138B | 152A | Rachael Blackmore | 6/1 |
| 30 Oct 20+231d | Down Royal | WKD Hurdle (Grade 2) | 1/6 | 11-6 | 145 | 115A | 143B | Rachael Blackmore | 3/1 | |
| 13 Mar 20+40d | Cheltenham | Jcb Triumph Hurdle (Grade 1) | 2/13 | 2¾ | 11-0 | 152 | 101B | 133A | Rachael Blackmore | 5/1 |
| 02 Feb 20+38d | Leopardstown | Tattersalls Ireland Spring Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 1) | F/10 | — | 11-0 | 145 | — | — | Rachael Blackmore | 1/3F |
| 26 Dec 19+30d | Leopardstown | Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 2) | 1/8 | 10-12 | — | — | 163A | Rachael Blackmore | 15/8F | |
| 26 Nov 19+108d | Punchestown | Download The BETDAQ App 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle | 1/15 | 11-0 | — | 124B | 144A | Rachael Blackmore | 9/4F | |
| 10 Aug 19+22d | Ascot | Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Classic (Handicap) | 3/10 | 1½ | 9-5 | 86 | 108B | 85A | C Y Ho | 11/1 |
| 19 Jul 19+28d | Hamilton | British Stallion Studs EBF Glasgow Stakes (Listed) | 3/6 | 4 | 9-5 | 83 | 108A | 78B | Shane Gray | 25/1 |
| 21 Jun 19+20d | Goodwood | Kennels Handicap | 3/6 | 2 | 9-3 | 83 | 90B | 83B | P J McDonald | 9/1 |
| 01 Jun 19+27d | Musselburgh | Gaynor Winyard Handicap | 3/9 | 3¼ | 9-7 | 85 | 102A | 95A | Richard Kingscote | 12/1 |
| 05 May 19+176d | Newmarket | Qipco Supporting British Racing Handicap | 5/5 | 13 | 9-1 | 88 | 63C | 65C | Jim Crowley | 9/2 |
| 10 Nov 18+7d | Chelmsford City (AW) | Bet totequadpot At totesport.com Conditions Stakes (Plus 10) | 3/4 | nk | 8-12 | 88 | 86C | 84B | Luke Morris | 5/2 |
| 03 Nov 18+26d | Newmarket | TuckerGardner Lettings Nursery | 1/7 | 9-7 | 80 | 87A | 101A | Harry Bentley | 5/4F | |
| 08 Oct 18+22d | Windsor | Ancaster Nissan Nursery | 3/7 | ½ | 9-7 | 79 | 86A | 85A | Tom Marquand | 3/1F |
| 16 Sep 18+21d | Ffos Las | Coopers Marquees/EBF Novice Stakes | 2/8 | 2¾ | 9-2 | — | 88A | 88A | Tom Marquand | 3/1 |
| 26 Aug 18+19d | Goodwood | Ladbrokes Bet 5 Get 20 Maiden Auction Stakes | 2/8 | ¾ | 9-5 | — | 125A | 95A | Harry Bentley | 9/1 |
| 07 Aug 18 | Newbury | Norfolk Park Norfolk Novice Median Auction Stakes | 6/9 | hd | 9-2 | — | 68A | 62A | Tom Marquand | 10/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Aspire Tower (IRE) won?
- Aspire Tower (IRE) won 7 of 32 archived starts between 2018 and 2025, a strike rate of 21.9%. Placed 15 times in total (46.9% of starts).
- Who trained Aspire Tower (IRE)?
- Aspire Tower (IRE) was trained by Jennie Candlish on the most recent run on record, at Stratford on 1 July 2025.
- Who is Aspire Tower (IRE)'s sire?
- Aspire Tower (IRE) is by Born To Sea (IRE) out of Red Planet (GB), whose sire is Pivotal.
- What going does Aspire Tower (IRE) prefer?
- Aspire Tower (IRE) has the best record on good going: 2 wins from 6 starts (33.3%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Aspire Tower (IRE)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 143, from the run on 1 July 2025. The highest on record is 160.
- What is Aspire Tower (IRE)'s sire's record?
- Born To Sea (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 9.1% of 4,273 runs since Jan 2008 (310 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest on soft going: 12.2% from 962. Weakest on standard (aw) going: 4.4% from 864. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 5.8% from 723.
- Who are Aspire Tower (IRE)'s siblings?
- Out of Red Planet (GB), Aspire Tower (IRE) has 4 other produce in our archive, 3 of them winners. Most wins: Planetaria (IRE) (3). Highest grade won: Class 2 (Krypton Gold (IRE)). The wins came over 7f–1m7½f. As at Oct 2026.