Champ (IRE)
Champ won 11 of 25 starts in our archive including four Grade 1 wins. His biggest success came in the RSA Insurance Novices' Chase at Cheltenham in Mar 2020. He won five of six starts at Newbury and six of 16 starts over 2m5f – 3m on turf. The gelding aged 12 at his last run in Apr 2024 finished off an official rating of 156 at Aintree in the JRL Group Liverpool Hurdle wearing first-time headgear.
- 11–25Wins / Runs
- 44%Strike rate
- 17 (68%)Placed
- +5.48£1 level staken=25 at SP
- 1.38Fair A/E n=25 · 1.18 incl. margin
- 165Highest OR
- 110dAvg 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.
KTB Speed and Rating
Best recent Speed 154
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 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Soft | 8 | 140A | 101.5 | — |
| Soft | 8 | 141B | 111 | — |
| Good | 4 | 154B | 132 | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 14 | 154B | 122 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 3 | 98A | 92 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 3 | 123B | 106 | — |
Of 25 runs looked at, 5 have no figure: did not complete (3) · obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (2).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 20 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 14.4% of 12,129 runs since Jan 2008 (746 horses).
Weakest on standard (aw) going: 4.8% from 125. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 7.9% from 203.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 44 | 4 | 9.1% | −5.3 | — |
| Good to Firm | 786 | 120 | 15.3% | +0.9 | — |
| Good | 4,055 | 595 | 14.7% | +0.3 | 2 from 5 |
| Good to Soft | 2,134 | 316 | 14.8% | +0.4 | 5 from 11 |
| Soft | 3,300 | 464 | 14.1% | −0.3 | 4 from 9 |
| Heavy | 1,684 | 246 | 14.6% | +0.2 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 125 | 6 | 4.8% | −9.6 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 4 | 0 | 0% | −14.4 | — |
| 6f – 7f | 17 | 1 | 5.9% | −8.5 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 28 | 0 | 0% | −14.4 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 203 | 16 | 7.9% | −6.5 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 3,344 | 476 | 14.2% | −0.2 | 1 from 3 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 4,314 | 651 | 15.1% | +0.7 | 4 from 5 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 3,308 | 479 | 14.5% | +0.1 | 6 from 16 |
| Over 3m | 911 | 129 | 14.2% | −0.2 | 0 from 1 |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 21 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
4 siblings in the archive, 2 winners — best of them Drury (IRE) (3 wins).
The wins came over 2m2f–3m.
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drury (IRE) | 10 | 3 | 2m2f–2m5½f | — |
| Walkonthebriteside (IRE) | 13 | 1 | 3m | — |
| Track Mac (IRE) | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| Crouching Tiger (IRE) | 2 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Soft | 11 | 5 | 45% | +0.75 |
| Soft | 9 | 4 | 44% | +6.28 |
| Good | 5 | 2 | 40% | −1.55 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | 18 | 6 | 33% | +1.43 |
| Class 3 | 2 | 1 | 50% | −0.38 |
| Class 4 | 2 | 2 | 100% | +0.40 |
| Class 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% | +4.50 |
| Class 5 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class 6 | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.53 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheltenham | 7 | 1 | 14% | −2.00 |
| Newbury | 6 | 5 | 83% | +7.30 |
| Aintree | 4 | 1 | 25% | −0.75 |
| Ascot | 3 | 1 | 33% | +2.00 |
| Kempton | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Warwick | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.33 |
| Perth | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.07 |
| Southwell | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.53 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 16 | 6 | 38% | +2.58 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 5 | 4 | 80% | +5.37 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 3 | 1 | 33% | −1.47 |
| Over 3m | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonjo O'Neill Jr | 10 | 2 | 20% | −2.62 |
| Barry Geraghty | 7 | 5 | 71% | +4.95 |
| Nico de Boinville | 5 | 2 | 40% | −2.60 |
| Aidan Coleman | 2 | 1 | 50% | +3.50 |
| Mark Walsh | 1 | 1 | 100% | +2.25 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | 24 | 11 | 46% | +6.48 |
| Cheekpieces | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2022 | 5 | 1 | 20% | −2.62 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 33% | +2.00 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 50% | +3.00 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3 | 75% | +2.67 |
| 2018 | 5 | 4 | 80% | +4.90 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 50% | −0.47 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurdle | 17 | 7 | 41% | +3.53 |
| Chase | 6 | 3 | 50% | +2.42 |
| NH Flat | 2 | 1 | 50% | −0.47 |
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 Champ (IRE) won?
- Champ (IRE) won 11 of 25 archived starts between 2017 and 2024, a strike rate of 44%. Placed 17 times in total (68% of starts).
- Who trained Champ (IRE)?
- Champ (IRE) was trained by Nicky Henderson on the most recent run on record, at Aintree on 13 April 2024.
- Who is Champ (IRE)'s sire?
- Champ (IRE) is by King's Theatre (IRE) out of China Sky (IRE), whose sire is Definite Article.
- What going does Champ (IRE) prefer?
- Champ (IRE) has the best record on good to soft going: 5 wins from 11 starts (45.5%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Champ (IRE)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 156, from the run on 13 April 2024. The highest on record is 165.
- What is Champ (IRE)'s sire's record?
- King's Theatre (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 14.4% of 12,129 runs since Jan 2008 (746 horses), Flat and jumps together. Weakest on standard (aw) going: 4.8% from 125. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 7.9% from 203.
- Who are Champ (IRE)'s siblings?
- Out of China Sky (IRE), Champ (IRE) has 4 other produce in our archive, 2 of them winners. Most wins: Drury (IRE) (3). The wins came over 2m2f–3m. As at Oct 2026.