Buster Valentine (IRE)
Buster Valentine won four of 17 starts on turf between Nov 2018 and Apr 2023. He gained all four wins in handicaps or novice events on soft or heavy ground, two of them over 2m1f – 2m4f and one over 2m5f – 3m. The gelding, aged 10 at his last run in Apr 2023, finished third of 11 in a Class 4 handicap chase at Carlisle off an official rating of 116, 14lb below his highest ever mark of 130.
- 4–17Wins / Runs
- 23.5%Strike rate
- 8 (47.1%)Placed
- −4.24£1 level staken=17 at SP
- 1.32Fair A/E n=17 · 1.17 incl. margin
- 130Highest OR
- 35dBetween runs (median)longest 716 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 101
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Soft | 6 | 101A | 81 | — |
| Soft | 4 | 107A | 96 | — |
| Heavy | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 6 | 101A | 83.5 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 3 | 107A | 104 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 2 | 91A | 86.5 | — |
Of 17 runs looked at, 6 have no figure: obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (3) · did not complete (3).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 11 figures from 17 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 | 0 from 1 |
| Good to Soft | 625 | 60 | 9.6% | −1 | 0 from 7 |
| Soft | 947 | 87 | 9.2% | −1.4 | 2 from 7 |
| Heavy | 427 | 44 | 10.3% | −0.3 | 2 from 2 |
| 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 | 1 from 2 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 1,055 | 112 | 10.6% | 0 | 2 from 11 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 1,024 | 116 | 11.3% | +0.7 | 1 from 4 |
| Over 3m | 226 | 25 | 11.1% | +0.5 | — |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Soft | 7 | 0 | 0% | −7.00 |
| Soft | 7 | 2 | 29% | +0.38 |
| Heavy | 2 | 2 | 100% | +3.38 |
| Good | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 3 | 12 | 2 | 17% | −4.50 |
| Class 4 | 3 | 1 | 33% | −0.12 |
| Class 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class 5 | 1 | 1 | 100% | +1.38 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wetherby | 4 | 1 | 25% | −1.00 |
| Carlisle | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Ayr | 3 | 1 | 33% | −0.62 |
| Market Rasen | 2 | 1 | 50% | +2.50 |
| Newcastle | 2 | 1 | 50% | +0.88 |
| Musselburgh | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Kelso | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Cheltenham | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 11 | 2 | 18% | −5.12 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 4 | 1 | 25% | +0.50 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 2 | 1 | 50% | +0.38 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Hamilton | 8 | 1 | 13% | −5.00 |
| Henry Brooke | 6 | 3 | 50% | +3.76 |
| Danny McMenamin | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Sean Quinlan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Leighton Aspell | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | 16 | 4 | 25% | −3.24 |
| Cheekpieces | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| 2022 | 6 | 1 | 17% | −3.00 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | 25% | +0.50 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 100% | +3.26 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase | 11 | 2 | 18% | −3.50 |
| Hurdle | 6 | 2 | 33% | −0.74 |
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 Buster Valentine won?
- Buster Valentine (IRE) won 4 of 17 archived starts between 2018 and 2023, a strike rate of 23.5%. Placed 8 times in total (47.1% of starts).
- Who trained Buster Valentine?
- Buster Valentine (IRE) was trained by Mark Walford on the most recent run on record, at Carlisle on 8 April 2023.
- Who is Buster Valentine's sire?
- Buster Valentine (IRE) is by Ask (GB) out of Femme Du Noir (IRE), whose sire is Supreme Leader.
- What going does Buster Valentine prefer?
- Buster Valentine (IRE) has the best record on soft going: 2 wins from 7 starts (28.6%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Buster Valentine's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 116, from the run on 8 April 2023. The highest on record is 130.
- What is Buster Valentine'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.