Buveur D'air (FR)
Buveur D'air won 17 of 27 starts on turf between Aug 2014 and Mar 2022, including eight Grade 1 wins and three Listed wins in our archive. His biggest win came in the Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy at Cheltenham in Mar 2018. Fifteen of those wins came over 1m5f – 2m, with ten on soft ground. He last ran when ninth of 11 in the bet365 Morebattle Hurdle at Kelso in Mar 2022 off an official rating of 153, 19lb below his highest ever mark.
- 17–27Wins / Runs
- 63%Strike rate
- 22 (81.5%)Placed
- +17.49£1 level staken=27 at SP
- 1.35Fair A/E n=25 · 1.30 incl. margin
- 172Highest OR
- 39dBetween runs (median)longest 420 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 124
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 | 8 | 132C | 103.5 | — |
| Good to Soft | 4 | 126A | 123.5 | — |
| Heavy | 3 | 133C | 127 | — |
| Good | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 13 | 133C | 112 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 3 | 126A | 124 | — |
Of 19 runs looked at, 3 have no figure: obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (2) · did not complete (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 16 figures from 19 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 14.2% of 981 runs since Apr 2009 (97 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 3 | 0 | 0% | −14.2 | — |
| Good | 173 | 27 | 15.6% | +1.4 | 1 from 1 |
| Good to Soft | 119 | 17 | 14.3% | +0.1 | 4 from 8 |
| Soft | 410 | 60 | 14.6% | +0.4 | 10 from 14 |
| Heavy | 231 | 33 | 14.3% | +0.1 | 2 from 4 |
| Standard (AW) | 44 | 1 | 2.3% | −11.9 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m – 1m1f | 15 | 0 | 0% | −14.2 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 66 | 11 | 16.7% | +2.5 | 1 from 1 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 174 | 29 | 16.7% | +2.5 | 15 from 22 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 498 | 66 | 13.3% | −0.9 | 1 from 4 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 176 | 26 | 14.8% | +0.6 | — |
| Over 3m | 52 | 7 | 13.5% | −0.7 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Apr 2009 · as at 4 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
3 siblings in the archive, 3 winners — best of them Punchestowns (FR) (7 wins).
The wins came over 1m4f–3m½f; the highest grade won is Grade 1 (Punchestowns (FR)).
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punchestowns (FR) | 14 | 7 | 2m–3m½f | Grade 1 |
| Tistory (FR) | 11 | 5 | 1m4f–2m3½f | Class 4 |
| Rackham Lerouge (FR) | 13 | 3 | 2m½f–2m5f | Class 4 |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 14 | 10 | 71% | +9.05 |
| Good to Soft | 8 | 4 | 50% | +9.08 |
| Heavy | 4 | 2 | 50% | −1.08 |
| Good | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.44 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | 19 | 10 | 53% | +2.10 |
| Class 2 | 2 | 1 | 50% | −0.09 |
| Class 4 | 2 | 2 | 100% | +0.48 |
| Class 3 | 1 | 1 | 100% | +3.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aintree | 5 | 2 | 40% | +0.19 |
| Cheltenham | 4 | 2 | 50% | +3.67 |
| Newcastle | 3 | 2 | 67% | +0.55 |
| Sandown | 3 | 3 | 100% | +0.51 |
| Haydock | 2 | 1 | 50% | −0.09 |
| Kempton | 2 | 1 | 50% | −0.82 |
| Newbury | 2 | 1 | 50% | +2.00 |
| Kelso | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Punchestown | 1 | 1 | 100% | +2.00 |
| Warwick | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.30 |
| Huntingdon | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.18 |
| Nantes | 1 | 1 | 100% | +5.90 |
| Saint-Jean-de-Monts | 1 | 1 | 100% | +4.10 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 22 | 15 | 68% | +14.15 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 4 | 1 | 25% | −2.56 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 1 | 1 | 100% | +5.90 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Geraghty | 12 | 8 | 67% | −0.65 |
| Noel Fehily | 7 | 4 | 57% | +7.93 |
| Nico de Boinville | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Aidan Coleman | 2 | 2 | 100% | +1.21 |
| Morgan Delalande | 2 | 2 | 100% | +10.00 |
| Davy Russell | 1 | 1 | 100% | +2.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2019 | 5 | 2 | 40% | −0.80 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3 | 75% | +1.11 |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 100% | +6.04 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4 | 80% | +3.14 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 33% | +1.00 |
| 2014 | 2 | 2 | 100% | +10.00 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurdle | 21 | 13 | 62% | +8.28 |
| Chase | 2 | 2 | 100% | +1.21 |
| NH Flat | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Flat | 2 | 2 | 100% | +10.00 |
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 Buveur D'air won?
- Buveur D'air (FR) won 17 of 27 archived starts between 2014 and 2022, a strike rate of 63%. Placed 22 times in total (81.5% of starts).
- Who trained Buveur D'air?
- Buveur D'air (FR) was trained by Nicky Henderson on the most recent run on record, at Kelso on 5 March 2022.
- Who is Buveur D'air's sire?
- Buveur D'air (FR) is by Crillon (FR) out of History (FR), whose sire is Alesso.
- What going does Buveur D'air prefer?
- Buveur D'air (FR) has the best record on soft going: 10 wins from 14 starts (71.4%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Buveur D'air's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 153, from the run on 5 March 2022. The highest on record is 172.
- What is Buveur D'air's sire's record?
- Crillon (FR)'s progeny in our archive have won 14.2% of 981 runs since Apr 2009 (97 horses), Flat and jumps together.
- Who are Buveur D'air's siblings?
- Out of History (FR), Buveur D'air (FR) has 3 other produce in our archive, 3 of them winners. Most wins: Punchestowns (FR) (7). Highest grade won: Grade 1 (Punchestowns (FR)). The wins came over 1m4f–3m½f. As at Nov 2026.