Horse profile
Cavern Club (IRE)
by Ribchester (IRE) out of Merseybeat (GB) (New Approach)
29 runs · 18 courses · from Sep 2022
As at 25 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 27 Sep 2025 — 392 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run Sep 2025 · 4th of 12
7 wins · 6 courses
Last raced off OR 126
KTB Profile
Cavern Club won seven of 29 starts between Sep 2022 and Sep 2025. Three of those wins came over 1m5f – 2m, including a Class 2 handicap hurdle at Market Rasen in Jul 2025 off an official rating of 120. He also landed two handicaps at Chester. Ridden with patience in most of his races, he finished fourth of 12 at Market Rasen in Sep 2025 when last seen, racing off his career-high mark of 126.
Based on 29 archived runs · run-style from 11 commented runs since Sep 2024 · updated 25 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance
Typically held up
OR at career high
- 7–29Wins / Runs
- 24.1%Strike rate
- 16 (55.2%)Placed
- +14.20£1 level staken=29 at SP
- 1.71Fair A/E n=29 · 1.47 incl. margin
- 126Highest OR
- 39dAvg 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 rating126At career-high mark
126
74–126
KTB Speed and Rating
KTB Speed
Best recent Speed 129
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 25 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 4 | 133B | 119 | — |
| Soft | 2 | 95A | 74 | — |
| Good to Soft | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 25 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 5 | 133B | 109 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 2 | 98B | 96.5 | — |
Flat
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 25 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 5 | 105A | 83 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 5 | 94A | 78 | — |
| Soft | 4 | 95A | 86 | — |
| Good to Soft | 4 | 91B | 84 | — |
| Good | 2 | 117A | 101.5 | — |
| Heavy | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 25 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 11 | 117A | 86 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 7 | 95A | 86 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 3 | 86A | 82 | — |
Of 29 runs looked at, 1 has no figure: obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 28 figures from 29 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 11 analysed runs since Sep 2024
- Held up 7 (64%) · 2 wins
- Mid-division 3 (27%) · 1 win
- Prominent 1 (9%) · 0 wins
Pedigree intelligence
Sire
Progeny in our archive have won 9% of 2,754 runs since Jan 2008 (261 horses).
Strongest on heavy going: 15.4% from 117. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 14.1% from 213.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 8 | 1 | 12.5% | +3.5 | — |
| Good to Firm | 337 | 32 | 9.5% | +0.5 | 1 from 5 |
| Good | 581 | 55 | 9.5% | +0.5 | 1 from 6 |
| Good to Soft | 323 | 27 | 8.4% | −0.6 | 2 from 6 |
| Soft | 395 | 35 | 8.9% | −0.1 | 2 from 6 |
| Heavy | 117 | 18 | 15.4% | +6.4 | 0 from 1 |
| Standard (AW) | 993 | 81 | 8.2% | −0.8 | 1 from 5 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 213 | 30 | 14.1% | +5.1 | — |
| 6f – 7f | 1,154 | 98 | 8.5% | −0.5 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 726 | 56 | 7.7% | −1.3 | 0 from 3 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 408 | 41 | 10% | +1 | 3 from 11 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 161 | 15 | 9.3% | +0.3 | 3 from 13 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 84 | 9 | 10.7% | +1.7 | 1 from 2 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 7 | 0 | 0% | −9 | — |
| Over 3m | 1 | 0 | 0% | −9 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 24 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
Dam
Merseybeat (GB) (New Approach)
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 | 6 | 1 | 17% | +3.00 |
| Soft | 6 | 2 | 33% | +9.20 |
| Good to Soft | 6 | 2 | 33% | +4.00 |
| Good to Firm | 5 | 1 | 20% | −1.00 |
| Standard (AW) | 5 | 1 | 20% | +0.00 |
| Heavy | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 4 | 19 | 6 | 32% | +15.20 |
| Class 2 | 4 | 1 | 25% | +5.00 |
| Class 3 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Class 5 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chester | 4 | 2 | 50% | +11.50 |
| Newmarket | 3 | 1 | 33% | +1.00 |
| Market Rasen | 2 | 1 | 50% | +7.00 |
| Doncaster | 2 | 1 | 50% | +5.50 |
| Cheltenham | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Sandown | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Southwell (AW) | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Wolverhampton (AW) | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Thirsk | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Worcester | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Stratford | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Cartmel | 1 | 1 | 100% | +1.20 |
| York | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Newbury | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Leicester | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Kempton (AW) | 1 | 1 | 100% | +4.00 |
| Redcar | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Yarmouth | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 13 | 3 | 23% | +16.50 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 11 | 3 | 27% | +0.50 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 2 | 1 | 50% | +0.20 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gavin Sheehan | 3 | 2 | 67% | +13.50 |
| Benoit De La Sayette | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Robert Havlin | 3 | 1 | 33% | +2.00 |
| Stefano Cherchi | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Callum Shepherd | 2 | 1 | 50% | +11.00 |
| Hollie Doyle | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Sean Bowen | 2 | 1 | 50% | +0.20 |
| William Buick | 2 | 1 | 50% | +2.00 |
| Silvestre De Sousa | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jonjo O'Neill Jr | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jack Hogan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| James Bowen | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Edward Greatrex | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Rossa Ryan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Franny Norton | 1 | 1 | 100% | +1.50 |
| Marco Ghiani | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Andrea Atzeni | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheekpieces | 22 | 6 | 27% | +19.00 |
| None | 6 | 1 | 17% | −3.80 |
| Hood + blinkers | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | 3 | 43% | +22.50 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 18% | −6.30 |
| 2023 | 7 | 1 | 14% | −3.00 |
| 2022 | 4 | 1 | 25% | +1.00 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat | 21 | 4 | 19% | +3.50 |
| Hurdle | 8 | 3 | 38% | +10.70 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 7 runs | ||||||||||
| 27 Sep 25+28d | Market Rasen | Docks Beers Lincoln Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Pulling hard early - settled towards the back - made progress from two out but lacked the speed to get involved in the finish | 4/12 | nk | 11-9 | 126 | 109B | 141A | Gavin Sheehan | 11/2 |
| 30 Aug 25+42d | Chester | Powells Jewellery Handicap (GBBPlus Race) Settled in the pack early - asked for effort but boxed in with two out - found room and kept going approaching the final furlong - unable to close on the leading pair late | 3/8 | 3½ | 10-0 | 83 | 83A | 87A | Callum Shepherd | 5/2F |
| 19 Jul 25+35d | Market Rasen | Unibet Same Race Multi Summer Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Settled midfield early - made ground before two out - driven into third at the last - battled to hit front near the finish | 1/14 | 10-11 | 120 | 129B | 137A | Gavin Sheehan | 8/1 | |
| 14 Jun 25+41d | Chester | Going Is Good Handicap (GBBPlus Race) Settled at the back early - improved on the outside approaching 3f out - driven forward with 2f to go - sent to the front inside the final furlong - fought off a rival's late effort - hung on by a whisker | 1/9 | 9-8 | 79 | 95A | 94A | Callum Shepherd | 12/1 | |
| 04 May 25+12d | Newmarket | Betfred Handicap (Heritage Handicap) (GBBPlus Race) Held up at the back of the field early - lost touch from over 2f out - no impression from 1f out - finished well held in 10th | 10/10 | 3¼ | 8-6 | 81 | 75A | 60A | Hollie Doyle | 28/1 |
| 22 Apr 25+52d | Thirsk | Download The Raceday Ready App Handicap (GBBPlus Race) Settled at rear of field - still adrift and toiling with 3f left - made no impression - finished tenth | 10/10 | ½ | 9-7 | 81 | 81A | 70A | Silvestre De Sousa | 5/2F |
| 01 Mar 25+78d | Doncaster | Virgin Bet Handicap Hurdle Held up towards the back - lost momentum after error at final fence - made progress into contention 2f out - finished best to hit front near the line and score | 1/10 | 11-8 | 114 | — | 138A | Gavin Sheehan | 13/2 | |
| 2024 · 11 runs | ||||||||||
| 13 Dec 24+28d | Cheltenham | Catesby Estates Handicap Hurdle Settled in rear group early - hampered by fallen rival 3 out - shaken up run-in but only modest improvement to finish seventh | 7/14 | ¾ | 10-3 | 114 | 98B | 117A | Sean Bowen | 14/1 |
| 15 Nov 24+49d | Cheltenham | Valda Energy Novices' Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Settled midfield early - blundered and dropped back near the back - improved into contention before 2 out - moved into second at the last - fought hard on the run-in but winner found extra - unable to match that finish and held for second | 2/15 | 1 | 11-2 | 109 | 133B | 138A | Jonjo O'Neill Jr | 50/1 |
| 27 Sep 24+20d | Worcester | DragonBet - Real Bookmakers Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle Settled at back early - clumsy 3rd - improved into contention after 6th - pressed before 3 out then dropped away | 4/7 | 12 | 11-13 | 110 | 53B | 102B | Jack Hogan | 7/2 |
| 07 Sep 24+47d | Stratford | Brian's 90th Birthday Celebration Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) Settled just behind the pacesetter - hampered stride two out - driven into second on the home turn - stayed on at same rate but never a threat to winner - held on for second | 2/5 | 10 | 11-5 | — | 69C | 116B | James Bowen | 5/4 |
| 22 Jul 24+9d | Cartmel | Womens Community Matters Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race) | 1/8 | 11-0 | — | 95A | 120B | Sean Bowen | 6/5F | |
| 13 Jul 24+28d | Chester | Horseradish Catering & Events Handicap | 6/10 | 1 | 10-3 | 83 | 91B | 82A | Edward Greatrex | 11/1 |
| 15 Jun 24+21d | Sandown | Gamble Responsibly At BetMGM Handicap | 6/8 | nk | 9-7 | 83 | 88A | 73A | Rossa Ryan | 9/2 |
| 25 May 24+66d | Chester | Beck's Handicap | 1/5 | 9-4 | 80 | 80C | 83B | Franny Norton | 6/4F | |
| 20 Mar 24+39d | Southwell (AW) | BetUK. It's Where The UK Bets Handicap | 3/12 | dht | 9-7 | 80 | 76A | 83A | Hollie Doyle | 18/1 |
| 10 Feb 24+23d | Wolverhampton (AW) | Betuk. It's Where The UK Bets Handicap | 10/11 | 1¾ | 9-12 | 82 | 94A | 66A | Benoit De La Sayette | 12/1 |
| 18 Jan 24+97d | Southwell (AW) | Build Your Acca With BetUK Handicap | 9/11 | 1 | 9-3 | 83 | 88A | 73A | Benoit De La Sayette | 11/4F |
| 2023 · 7 runs | ||||||||||
| 13 Oct 23+29d | York | William Hill Finale Handicap (Heritage Handicap) | 9/11 | 4 | 8-9 | 83 | 82C | 71C | Benoit De La Sayette | 12/1 |
| 14 Sep 23+20d | Doncaster | Winners Wear Skopes Menswear Handicap | 2/9 | ½ | 8-13 | 81 | 84A | 86A | William Buick | 7/1 |
| 25 Aug 23+23d | Newmarket | Britain's Biggest Independent Bookmaker JenningsBet Handicap | 1/8 | 9-4 | 77 | 103B | 82A | William Buick | 3/1 | |
| 02 Aug 23+12d | Sandown | TrustATrader For Tradespeople You Can Trust Handicap | 8/8 | 2 | 9-8 | 79 | 86B | 67A | Robert Havlin | 18/1 |
| 21 Jul 23+45d | Newbury | Quickmove Handicap | 4/12 | 1½ | 9-1 | 79 | 117A | 74A | Marco Ghiani | 15/2 |
| 06 Jun 23+19d | Leicester | Racecourse Live Streams On Racing TV Extra Handicap | 5/8 | shd | 9-9 | 80 | 105A | 77A | Andrea Atzeni | 9/1 |
| 18 May 23+150d | Newmarket | Stradivarius At The National Stud Handicap | 3/9 | 3½ | 9-5 | 81 | 86A | 87A | Robert Havlin | 16/1 |
| 2022 · 4 runs | ||||||||||
| 19 Dec 22+35d | Kempton (AW) | Ladbrokes Christmas Festival December 26th & 27th Nursery | 1/5 | 9-0 | 74 | 70C | 86B | Robert Havlin | 4/1 | |
| 14 Nov 22+31d | Wolverhampton (AW) | It's Time To Turn To talkSPORT Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race) | 3/12 | 1½ | 9-2 | — | 78A | 79A | Stefano Cherchi | 15/2 |
| 14 Oct 22+19d | Redcar | Market Cross Jewellers British EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race) (Div 1) | 3/9 | ½ | 9-1 | — | 86A | 72A | Stefano Cherchi | 3/1 |
| 25 Sep 22 | Yarmouth | Follow AtTheRaces On Twitter Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race) | 2/11 | 3½ | 9-1 | — | 82B | 76A | Stefano Cherchi | 18/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Cavern Club won?
- Cavern Club (IRE) won 7 of 29 archived starts between 2022 and 2025, a strike rate of 24.1%. Placed 16 times in total (55.2% of starts).
- Who trained Cavern Club?
- Cavern Club (IRE) was trained by James Owen on the most recent run on record, at Market Rasen on 27 September 2025.
- Who is Cavern Club's sire?
- Cavern Club (IRE) is by Ribchester (IRE) out of Merseybeat (GB), whose sire is New Approach.
- What going does Cavern Club prefer?
- Cavern Club (IRE) has the best record on soft 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 Cavern Club's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 126, from the run on 27 September 2025. That is also the highest on record.
- What is Cavern Club's sire's record?
- Ribchester (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 9% of 2,754 runs since Jan 2008 (261 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest on heavy going: 15.4% from 117. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 14.1% from 213.